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