For years, researchers have been emphasizing that the stereotype of the typical eating disorder patient is inaccurate. Many assume that eating disorders primarily affect thin, white women. But people ...

The relationship between obesity and disordered eating behaviors represents a complex combination of psychological, physiological and environmental influences. As obesity rates rise across the world, ...

Today’s society often places the onus of responsibility on individuals when it comes to food choices without fully accounting for the cultural, social, and psychological factors that deeply influence ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Providers should screen for disordered eating behaviors among adolescents with type 1 diabetes using an insulin ...

The inevitability of variation in human behavior is a phenomenon psychologists have long recognized and developed statistical methods to account for in their analyses. Human behavior varies not only ...

Less than 10 minutes of consuming TikTok content can have an immediate impact on young women’s body image satisfaction and internalization of the thin ideal. Women who spend a lot of time on TikTok — ...

The terms “eating disorder” and “disordered eating” are often used interchangeably and you might not catch their differences—but they exist. Eating disorders, which can be fatal, affect nearly 30 ...

Let’s have a check-in about body checking. Even if you don’t know this behavior by name, you’ve probably seen it modeled by influencers. In a looks-obsessed space like social media — and a cultural ...

Whether good, bad or somewhere in the middle, we all have a relationship with food — and food-focused holidays like Thanksgiving can bring them to the forefront, along with unhealthy behaviors we may ...