Anorexia

In February 2010, Jonathan Noyes' uncle died suddenly. Several months later, during a summer trip to see the Statue of Liberty, Jonathan's much-loved grandmother started feeling ill. She was diagnosed with cancer and died two weeks before Christmas. Not...

Think of a person with an eating disorder and your first thought will likely be of a college coed. Yet children as young as six and retired seniors are increasingly being treated for eating disorders. Those with eating disorders have the highest...

When Eleanor Stanford boarded a plane to spend two years on the islands of Cape Verde, she had no idea what she was in for. She didn't know the language. She didn't know what the people ate. She didn't even know where she was going to live. -------...

LONDON (Reuters) - Scientists have for the first time reported successful use of a brain-stimulating implant to help patients with severe anorexia whose condition had not improved with other treatments. Doctors implanted a device similar to a pacemaker...

Most people who exercise find a way to work it into their lives. Robert Silvers of Marshfield, Mass., organizes his life around his exercise. When Silvers recently told his wife that, sorry, he didn't have time to help fix her computer, she reminded him...

Images of stylish, smiling celebrities are all over the Internet. Sexy, skinny models grace the pages of almost every woman's magazine. The quest to be flawless is all around us, and cases of anorexia and bulimia are growing at an alarming rate. "I...

Dear Amy: I am a 14-year-old girl, and I have a 20-year-old sister who has anorexia. She was officially diagnosed when she was 15. When she was in high school, she was in and out of the hospital. Since then, she has gone to college and is now a junior....

Google Lady Gaga and all you'll see are articles about not an outrageous meat outfit but sadly her weight gain. People have been gawking ever since Mother Monster showed a 25 pound fuller figure at a recent concert in Amsterdam. And that seems to be on...

Rob hated to run. But he hated to stop even more. That's when his disparaging inner voice, the one that had belittled him since seventh grade, would emerge. If he didn't keep going, it said, he was going to get fat. He would never have the shredded abs...

In case you were feeling good about the general state of the universe right now, here's a bit of news to knock you right down. A pro-anorexia website has slammed stunning model Kate Upton for her weight -- claiming that she is 30 pounds too heavy for a...

Great numbers of girls and women suffer from the impacts of a negative body image, including, for example, health concerns such as eating disorders. The National Institute of Mental Health, referring to the results of the National Comorbidity Study...

Hardly a week goes by that America's obsession with thinness doesn't play out on supermarket magazine racks. Remember Angelina Jolie at this year's Oscars? Celebrity glossies plastered the A-lister-turned-pipe cleaner on their covers and remarked on...