It has been known for many years that advanced cancer is associated with a wasting syndrome that speeds the demise of patients. About one-quarter to a third of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 is a potentially life-threatening social and psychological eating disorder characterized by self-starvation and excessive weight loss. The majority of suffers are female, but there ...

For people with anorexia, treatment options are scarce. There are no medications approved for the eating disorder because none have been shown to work. And anorexia has the highest death rate of all ...

“To the Bone,” the new movie from Marti Noxon, stars Lily Collins as a young woman with anorexia and Keanu Reeves as the vaguely unconventional—he’s bearded and uses curse words—doctor who treats her.

From the outside, my eating disorder looked a lot like vanity run amok. It looked like a diet or an obsession with the size of my thighs. I spewed self- and body-hatred to friends and family for well ...

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.