"No one expects a grown woman in her 40s to have an eating disorder. That's for teenagers, right? Well, guess what – it happened to me." Alexa, a 44-year-old real estate agent, was telling me about ...

Weight-loss drugs are increasingly being marketed to women in their 40s like me—many of whom have histories with eating ...

ScienceDaily (2011-02-13) - Women suffering from anorexia or bulimia draw themselves with prominently different characteristics than women who do not have eating disorders and who are considered of ...

When conversations about eating disorders arise, they typically center around teenagers and young adults. Yet a less discussed reality exists: women in midlife increasingly battle these complex ...

Eating disorders impact more than 1.1 million people in Australia, representing 4.5% of the population. These disorders include binge eating disorder, bulimia nervosa, and anorexia nervosa. Meanwhile, ...

According to a recent study published in the International Journal of Eating Disorders, women diagnosed with eating disorders or disordered eating behaviors were “at a distinct disadvantage when ...

Sara Bond of Mapleton, N.D., talks about her long battle with an eating disorder. She says she was 65 pounds at her lowest and says her mother would often check on her at night to make sure she was ...

The Australian wrestler said she’s “actively trying to handle” her eating disorder ...

A recent study in the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior (JNEB), published by Elsevier, examined the impact of the ...