Here's what anorexia nervosa is, why it's so concerning and how people who struggle with the disorder can get help.

Anorexia nervosa is an eating disorder that affects about 1 in 100-200 girls or women in the United States. A person with this disorder limits eating and by definition weighs at least 15% less than ...

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 ...

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Content note: This story discusses details of disordered eating. Nearly a year after being diagnosed with anorexia nervosa, Tess Holliday is sharing the challenges of recovery—a process that is often ...

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.

Some intensive treatments help, even without a perfect theory behind them.

For years, the name would haunt Rodolfo Ruiz. "Gordolfo Gelatino!" his cousins would chant, cackling at the gelatinous roll of chub peeking out from 10-year-old Rudy's T shirt. That night, and many ...

Doctors, patients and researchers are at the very beginning of understanding how the new class of obesity drugs interact with ...

A team of researchers at Baylor College of Medicine, Louisiana State University and collaborating institutions has discovered that abnormal activity in a particular brain circuit underlies anorexia in ...

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 patients with advanced cancer develop ...