Food should nourish us, not consume us. This post explores how the pursuit of perfect nutrition can quietly undermine health.
There are moments in life that shift everything we thought mattered. A sudden illness, the death of a loved one, a brush with something greater than ourselves—these moments force a clarity we often ...
I can’t remember the day that I decided to start starving myself. I can’t remember if it was a particular day, specific event or a mounting of occurrences that spurred me into an eating disorder. Like ...
Recovering from an eating disorder can be long and complex. Treatment typically focuses on reducing the unhelpful behaviors and thoughts that characterize these disorders. These include extreme ...
Eating disorders are complicated illnesses that skyrocketed among teenagers during the COVID-19 pandemic. Pediatrician Eva Trujillo says they... Eating disorder recovery in a world of diet culture ...
When Mallary Tenore Tarpley was 11 years old, her mother died from breast cancer. Her father, who was reeling from his wife's death and at a loss to guide his daughter through puberty, gave Tarpley a ...
Warning: This article contains descriptions of disordered eating and suicidal ideation. Recovery from an eating disorder never quite ends for some. Just ask Kerry Washington. The 49-year-old actress, ...
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 ...
Recovering from an eating disorder can be long and complex. But when recovery focuses on a clinical checklist of symptoms, such as reaching a healthy weight, it may ignore other important aspects of ...
Eating disorders among teenagers skyrocketed during the COVID-19 pandemic. Teens like Moorea Friedman were isolated, spending more time in front of their computers watching movies and TV, where ...