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On the face of it, the two main eating disorders (anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa) are at the opposite ends of the spectrum. The person suffering from anorexia is in...

I guess that we all know people who have lost weight with a particular diet club or method only to have all the weight slowly creep back on again. “I don’t understand...

So often when we have disordered eating patterns we become estranged from our bodily sensations – or they become something we seek to conquer and suppress.  When we...

Emotional Eating is, for many Women, a coping mechanism for dealing with difficult and uncomfortable feelings or emotions in their everyday lives. It is in fact an Eating Disorder...

It’s a challenge to separate binge eating from over-eating, but they are not the same thing. Binge eating disorder is probably on one of the least understood of the eating...

Anorexia is often misunderstood. The drive to protect this 'state' of being by the sufferer often causes confusion and disbelief in others. It’s a destructive, devastating...

Fat people not only carry their own weight, they also hold the blame and the responsibility for their own obesity. People around them are likely to give extreme importance to slim...

A person who is wasting away because they're afraid of weight gain is in great distress. Having a compulsion to eat and eat is a terrifying loss of control. Here's a look into...

Binge eating disorder (BED) is now a recognised condition that is believed to affect more people than other eating disorders, probably at least 2% of all adults although this...

While eating disorders may begin with preoccupations with food and weight, they are most often about much more than food.Eating disorders are complex conditions that arise from a...