Anorexia nervosa is a type of eating disorder that leads people to obsess over their body image, weight, and caloric intake. It has the highest mortality rate of any mental health disorder. If left ...

Carpenter was the first celebrity casualty of an eating disorder, according to Randy Schmidt, the author of Little Girl Blue: The Life of Karen Carpenter. After her death, however, other public ...

Anorexia nervosa is typically perceived to be a serious psychiatric disorder. Now, a large-scale, international study has shown that some differences in the DNA of people with anorexia changed how ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new brain imaging study shows what anorexia does to a person's brain, and how weight gain appears to reverse the changes MRI ...

Financial anorexia: ‘I’m scared of spending money and I save obsessively. It’s ruining my life’ - Saving money and spending carefully are generally considered good financial habits. But what happens ...

No matter how much you think you know about the eating disorder anorexia nervosa, odds are one image comes to mind: an emaciated white teenage girl. But that stereotype ignores the fact that anorexia ...

MRI scans from a recent study show how anorexia can have a "drastic" impact on the brain. Women with anorexia had thinner cortical thickness, which is linked to lower intelligence. Weight gain ...

Tess Holliday shared that she is in recovery from anorexia, and has experienced the stigma of having what experts call an "atypical eating disorder" Julie Mazziotta is the Senior Sports Editor at ...

Anorexia nervosa isn’t just a psychiatric condition – it is a metabolic one, too, according to a genetic study of around 72,500 people. The findings help to explain some of the symptoms of anorexia, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. brain scans of anorexia nervosa patients Anorexia nervosa is a serious mental health condition, characterized by restricted eating ...

Louise Harrington was starting to doubt that she had anorexia. She knew she was shockingly underweight, and she desperately wanted to gain at least 30 pounds. She had no desire to look like a model.