Stella was eight years old when she stopped eating solid foods. She went from being a “foodie” to strictly consuming liquids, says Briana, Stella’s mother. That diet soon became problematic for Stella ...

As doctors, our role involves healing others. Admitting we have a problem we are unable to resolve ourselves is at odds with our professional identity—it goes against our training, and often our ...

"No, not even strawberries," is something Mara says a lot. She cannot eat oranges - in fact almost no other solid fruit or vegetables and no cold cooked meat, either. She was breaking out in a sweat ...

March 5, 2007 — -- While eating disorders affect millions of Americans, until recently, people in the medical community didn't fully understand them. Dr. Ira Sacker changed that 20 years ago when ...

Doctors, patients and researchers are at the very beginning of understanding how the new class of obesity drugs interact with ...

As eating disorder rates continue to climb following the COVID-19 pandemic, one doctor has revealed life-threating physical dangers which are often overlooked and treatment gaps leaving patients ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- This week is National Eating Disorders Awareness Week. One eating disorder that parents may not be as familiar with is Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder. Doctors say when the ...

The last thing Chevese Turner needed was medication to help her lose weight. Twenty years into recovery from binge eating disorder and atypical anorexia, she was done trying to whittle her physique ...

In the United States, eating disorders are the second most deadly mental health issue (behind opioid use disorder). And they are more common than you may think, affecting about 9 percent of the U.S.