Many American adolescents suffer from an eating disorder and struggle with related psychiatric disorders, including suicidal tendencies, new research reveals.

My last blog about the latest encouraging study of the Maudsley method as a treatment for anorexia brought forth a volley of comments. Some of those who wrote asked for more information about the risk factors that may contribute to eating disorders. The first thing to keep in mind is that eating disorders do not [...]

The eating disorder anorexia strikes adolescent girls in disproportionate numbers. But boys get it too, and it kills about 10 percent of those who have it. So it may be surprising that there have been few evaluations of effective treatment.

“Lonely, lost, broken, ashamed, hopeless, desolate, driven, and cursed”, “not recognised”, “Macho failure”, “scaredy little boy afraid of fry-ups” and “freakish”, suffering in silence, shameful, “Under-represented, under-researched and under-supported”, “forgotten”, “stigma”, “unheard of”, “overlooked”… those are just some of the responses I recieved from Twitterers and Facebookers when I asked the question ‘What do you [...]

A new study coming out of British Columbia reveals that an increasing number of teenagers and young adults are needing eating disorder treatment. Head of the Eating Disorders Program at St. Paul’s Hospital in Vancouver, Dr. Laird Birmingham, said that our society highly underestimates the seriousness of the problems with eating disorders, and without treatment [...]