The Latest Breaking News from Eating Disorders

New research found that emergency department (ED) visits and hospital admissions for eating disorders increased during the COVID-19 pandemic in adolescents aged 10-17 years, as did ED visits among young adults and older adults. Read further on Dynamite News:

Netflix couldn’t have chosen a more resonant title than Everything Now for their new comedy drama series. When I came out of a residential clinic in 2009 for treatment of anorexia, I did a parachute jump, started volunteering and decided to have a baby on my own. Some of these…

Experts say dietary guidelines from Australian government bodies are too weight-centric – a ‘huge disconnect’ between science and policy

Many former dancers claim they developed eating disorders and some said they had been left with mental health problems

Researchers say float therapy offers a new therapeutic direction in treating patients with anorexia nervosa and other eating disorders.

". . . statistics indicate one third of people with an eating disorder are male . . . "

Season two of the series Heartstopper on Netflix brings out an issue that is often hidden – male eating disorders. Centred on two teenage boys in love, the show helps bust the common perception that eating disorders are only seen in girls and women.

Since a misjudged anorexia storyline in Skins, television has continued to glorify and glamorise eating disorders. I am so relieved that Netflix’s hit teen drama has finally got it right

A Diana edition of the popular ‘Little People, Big Dreams’ series is doing something revolutionary by acknowledging the late royal’s eating disorder, writes Olivia Petter, who remembers a time when low food intake was a source of pride among her peers at school