The largest provider of mental health services in Europe has recently issued a statement linking stress to a rise in eating disorders in ...

A new study suggests children are concerned over their body shape as early as the fourth or fifth grade. Researchers studied 4,254 Canadian ...

The increasing popularity of excessive forms of exercise, such as conventional or ultramarathons as well as extreme bike road races, may be ...

The tragic mental disorder of anorexia can lead to such severe weight loss as to threaten an individual's life. ...

A new study confirmed an earlier observation that regular yoga practice may help prevent middle-aged spread in normal-weight people and may promote weight loss in those who are overweight. Researchers discovered regular yoga practice is associated ...

A new study advocates a novel technique for weight control -- consume to satisfy your stomach, not your brain. The perspective ...

A new research effort has identified factors that may increase the risk of eating disorders among overweight teens. Eating disorders for ...

A new study suggests there is much more consensus among men about whom they find attractive than there is among women. The study, by Wake ...

New research suggests physicians and other health workers should be more aware of the high risk of eating disorders among ...

A long-term study matching 51 teenagers with anorexia nervosa with 51 teenagers without the eating disorder has produced interesting results. The cohort study, which began in ...