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MPs said there has been an alarming rise in eating disorders in the past decade and there is ‘widespread neglect’ in services.

Exclusive: Concerns raised that wording of law could result in people with eating disorders using it to end their lives

If you have already committed to eating clean in the coming year, be cautious—obsessing over healthy eating can take a toll on your mental health and potentially lead to eating disorders.

IN FOCUS: As many prepare to spend Christmas with friends and families around the dining table, Olivia Petter hears from those for whom the most ‘wonderful’ time of the year can feel anything but

YouTube’s policy states that it will remove or restrict content that ‘glorifies or promotes eating disorders’ but the study found that harmful content is still accessible on the social media platform

I felt validated and seen, yet so resentful.

Seven families have filed a joint legal complaint against TikTok in France, accusing the video platform of exposing their teenage children to content about suicide, self-harm, eating disorders and other mental health problems that they argue encouraged them to hurt themselves.

The study found associations between a mother's history of eating disorders and pre-pregnancy body mass index (BMI) higher than the normal weight range to most of the nine psychiatric diagnoses examined in the offspring.

Onus needs to be on social media companies to make them safer, including allowing users to reset algorithms