Eating Disorders Blog

A recent ad campaign was so adept at including items that are likely to trigger disordered eating that I decided to open the Eating Disorder Hall of Sadness, a record ... Read More

Is anorexia or bulimia likely to apply to you? Igor Smichkov / iStockphoto.com The SCOFF eating disorder screening is a five-question tool designed to show you if you may have an ... Read More

I'm pretty sure I never thought I'd write the above headline for an entry in an eating disorders blog. Yet here it is. First, a little backstory. People for the Ethical ... Read More

All that distance doesn't mean that you're helpless against eating disorders as parents. Jim Jurica / iStockphoto.com Okay, parents. You have a strong-willed high school graduate who is bent on winging ... Read More

Those with anorexia often want to stand out from the crowd. Bart Sadowski / iStockphoto.com Among the motivations that lead a person to engage in food restriction, and ultimately anorexia nervosa, ... Read More

Some time ago I published an interview with Mary Pat Nally, who spent over two decades battling an eating disorder. Here's another segment, focusing on the spiritual aspects of Mary ... Read More

You wouldn't be alone if you thought that the Miss America pageant places an emphasis on appearance that would tend to push impressionable viewers toward eating disorders. Yet the personal ... Read More

Fibromyalgia is frustrating problem with extensive complications. One of those, it turns out, is binge-eating disorder. There's no question that the stress of dealing with fibromyalgia can lead to ... Read More

Bulimia involves lots of rituals in the binge/purge process, possibly ranging from the route to the grocery store all the way through the method of cleaning up after purging. One important ... Read More

Pro-ana website owners may be running out of time before legal consequences arrive. Christine Balderas / iStockphoto.com It hasn't come up in the court system yet, but I found a paper ... Read More

I hear ads for hypnosis as a weight loss method on the radio all the time. But you don't hear much about its use in eating disorder treatment. It turns out ... Read More

Ever read over a paragraph five times before you realized you were repeating it? Or suddenly realized that you don't remember the last three miles of driving? Most of us have. ... Read More