The Latest Breaking News from anorexia

First I had anorexia, then high cholesterol. It’s hard to maintain a healthy relationship to food in a society obsessed with weight loss, says writer Amelia Tait

Jade Thirlwall doesn't think she should have been allowed to compete on The X Factor because of her mental health and struggle with anorexia.

Exclusive: More than 250 people who have suffered with eating disorders have written to MPs, warning: ‘If this bill had been law during the years many of us were struggling, we would have used it to end our lives’

Imagine a tribe of uncontacted hunter-gatherers in the deepest Amazon rainforest. Anthropologists airdrop dozens of smartphones loaded with social media apps, with solar chargers, simple instructions in their native language and Wi-Fi just within the tribe. What would happen to their culture and their mental health?

The Scottish actor Morven Christie draws out the forlorn beauty of the prose in this haunting memoir

Doctors worry about GLP-1s being used by people with restrictive eating disorders – but research also shows they could help others struggling with binge eating

The teen, struggling with anorexia, had been following an extreme, unsupervised diet from YouTube, severely restricting her food intake for months.

“It is way more common than people think,” says one expert.

The final straw, the one that broke this particular camel’s back, was my girlfriend’s receipt of her autism diagnosis over email. She didn’t want to open the report alone and asked if I would read it with her – and when we were done, the only thing I could think…