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Slipping Through The Cracks

Eating Disorders Are Common Among Pregnant Women, But Support Is Lacking

...of eating disorders include anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa and binge eating disorders. Like most mental health struggles, eating disorders are bio-psychosocial illnesses, sparked by a complex interplay of genetic, biological,...

By Anubhuti Matta

Digital Enablers

Health Tracking Apps Provide a Worrying Pipeline to Eating Disorders. Better Tech Design Can Fix That.

...eating disorders, health tracking technology can morph into a tool of self-destruction instead. Intricately tracking one’s food intake and exercise serves to worsen symptoms of eating disorders based on restrictive...

The Unique Factors That Contribute to Eating Disorders in India

...thought to be a “culture-bound syndrome” limited to Western populations, recent research now points to the prevalence of eating disorders in non-Western populations as well. Reliable studies on eating disorders...

By Shachi Dalal

Cause and Effect

The Intriguing Link Between Common Infections and Eating Disorders

...confirmed, these findings can not only radically change the way eating disorders are treated (by checking for any lingering infections), but they can also change how eating disorders are perceived...

By Pallavi Prasad

Before The Scale Tips

Early Warning Signs Can Help Detect Eating Disorders

...from Swansea University, the large-scale study might help doctors diagnose eating disorders sooner. Eating disorders like anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge eating disorder are conditions that involve serious disturbances...

Look Beyond Appearances

A Plus‑Size Model Shares She’s Anorexic, Proves Appearance Isn’t Sole Marker of Eating Disorders

...Disorders Association based in the U.S. “Weight stigma prevents many people with eating disorders from being diagnosed with an eating disorder, seeking treatment for an eating disorder, and/or receiving treatment...

Two Sides Same Coin

People With Anxiety, Eating Disorders Interpret Body Sensations Differently: Study

...in people living with eating disorders, or similarly, the feeling of one not “hav[ing] enough air” in panic disorders, the researchers explained. Related on The Swaddle: World’s First Biomarker Test...

By Devrupa Rakshit

All You Can Eat

Could Intuitive Eating End Diet Culture?

...disordered eating is a direct result of restriction rather than free choice. Eating disorders like bulimia nervosa, anorexia nervosa, and binge eating disorder are the results of extreme food deprivation....

Adolescents Are Falling Prey to Chew and Spit, a Relatively Unknown Eating Disorder

When it comes to disordered eating, anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa are often the first eating disorders that come to mind due to their place in the greater conversation around...

Eating to Gain Weight Isn’t Always Healthy, But More Women Are Doing It

...want to be fit’.” Related on The Swaddle: The Unique Factors That Contribute to Eating Disorders in India Eating to bulk up tends to be very disciplined, Dalal says. While...

By Liesl Goecker

No Preservatives

An Obsessive Need to Keep a Healthy Diet Could Soon Be Classified as an Eating Disorder

The way we eat is intrinsically tied to the way we look, which is the crux of what influences eating disorders. However, the language around restrictive diets often utilizes phrases...

Restricted Bodies

Anorexia Is the Most Deadly Eating Disorder; Here’s What You Need To Know About It

...We all understand self-indulgence but are afraid that self-denial might be beyond us,” writes Hilary Mantel for The Guardian. Though eating disorders predate modern diet culture, fearing and shunning food...

Unusual Cravings

Why Do People Eat Chalk, Dirt, and Other Things Not Fit to Consume?

...disorder that occurs most often in children and pregnant women and is typically temporary. The National Eating Disorders Association (NEDA) has defined this condition as an, “eating disorder that involves...

By Anubhuti Matta

All You Can Eat

Hormones Change Appetite, Body Image Throughout the Menstrual Cycle

...eating disorders. The spike in sex hormones and resultant binge-eating right before menstruation can also exacerbate mental health issues in women with existing mood disorders, such as anxiety and depression....

End Diet Culture

‘Drunkorexia,’ Or Skipping Meals After Binge Drinking, Can Cause Nutritional, Cognitive Deficits

...shape, and look desirable for people, which pushes them towards disordered eating.” Related on The Swaddle: Could Intuitive Eating End Diet Culture? “Eating disorders are often enabled by fatphobia,” added...

(No) Relationship With Food

What It’s Like To Live With: An Undiagnosed Eating Disorder

...able to tell something’s up with me all the time. Related on The Swaddle: A Plus‑Size Model Shares She’s Anorexic, Proves Appearance Isn’t Sole Marker of Eating Disorders I’ve begun...

By Devrupa Rakshit

Within And Outside

A Weak Gut‑Brain Connection Can Lead To Negative Body Image: Study

...of “feeling uncomfortably full” in people living with eating disorders, or similarly, the feeling of one not “hav[ing] enough air” in panic disorders. Whether the findings of the two studies...

By Devrupa Rakshit

eating disorders

New Study Sheds Light on Genetic Causes of Anorexia

...potential metabolic root cause to the eating disorder, as well as a psychiatric one. Anorexia nervosa is an eating disorder characterised by low weight, fear of gaining weight, valuing thinness,...

By Liesl Goecker

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