Mental health issues can be notoriously difficult to talk about, thanks to the stigma surrounding them in years gone by, but it doesn’t...

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Here's to eroding stigma and encouraging hope for recovery By The Editors of Women's Health Updated: 16 March 2022 Content warning: This article contains celebrities speaking openly about their experience of eating disorders, which some may find difficult to read. Eating disorder charity Beat estimates that around 1.25 million people in the UK have an eating disorder – a staggering, but sadly not surprising, number. And what's more worrying still, is that eating disorders

In August 2021, Beat conducted a survey of 182 people with lived experience of eating disorders to understand more about their...

Crash diets. Weight loss supplements. Calorie tracking apps. If you use the internet, you’ve no doubt seen adverts for products that claim to make you healthier but often do anything but. For people with eating disorders, these adverts are extra harmful. Last August, Beat ran a survey of 182 people with experience of eating disorders. We wanted to understand more about how they feel online advertising has affected them. And the results were worrying. 96% of respondents had c

August 12, 2024 Source: Aston University Summary: Young children often display similar eating behavior as their parents, with a parent's own eating style influencing how they feed their children. Young children often display similar eating behaviour as their parents, with a parent's own eating style influencing how they feed their children, research at Aston University has shown. The work suggests that parents can help to shape healthy eating behaviour in their children both

McLean Hospital researchers show that binge-eating disorder lasts years rather than months for many people, and relapse is common May 28, 2024 Source: McLean Hospital Summary: New research finds that binge-eating disorder symptoms may persist longer than once believed, finding 61 percent and 45 percent of individuals still experienced binge-eating disorder 2.5 and 5 years after their initial diagnoses, respectively. Binge-eating disorder is the most prevalent eating disorder

Individuals with the eating disorder often wake early and experience insomnia January 4, 2024 Source: Massachusetts General Hospital Summary: New research indicates that the eating disorder anorexia nervosa is associated with being an early riser, unlike many other disorders that tend to be evening-based such as depression, binge eating disorder and schizophrenia. New research indicates that the eating disorder anorexia nervosa is associated with being an early riser, unlike

Alex Collins, Published October 2024 The latest series of popular LGBT teen drama Heartstopper is all about Nick and Charlie’s relationship . But this series also brings Charlie’s eating disorder to the fore, a topic that is rarely talked about in the LGBT community despite studies showing it's a common experience. In real life, there is one school day in Year 9 that Heartstopper fan Sharan, who uses the pronoun they, will never forget. After years of bullying, they were oute

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-68675111 A student who overcame an eating disorder will be running the London Marathon this April. Ella White, 22, from Somerset, took all 22 of her GCSE exams in an inpatient unit 100 miles away from her home due to the disorder. Now she is a medical student at the University of Bristol and training to run the 26.2-mile marathon in aid of the charity Mind. Ella says she is sharing her story to show others "they are not alone". "T

Yasmin Rufo BBC News Published 30 May 2024 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1ddgl9vjrno This story contains descriptions of eating...

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/kate-moss-vogue-heroin-chic-anorexia-b2609322.html Kate Moss  says that the parents of girls with eating disorders  would harass her in the street during what in the Nineties was branded her “heroin chic” look. The supermodel, 50, stars in new Disney+ documentary, In Vogue: The 90s , and said that she was targeted for being “skinny” and having a “different” body shape. “Parents would come up to me and say, ‘My daughter’s anorexic’. It