Binge-eating disorder is one of the most common eating disorders, but it’s often the most misunderstood. We spoke to writer and mental health advocate Charlotte Underwood about her experience of binge-eating disorder and how a lack of understanding...
Eating disorders can involve eating too little or too much, and/or becoming obsessed with body weight and body shape. Normally, someone with an eating disorder will exhibit an unhealthy relationship with food, their body and themselves to the point...
Are you constantly faced with nutritional and health advice from the media about what you should and should not be eating? In today's society, we are all inundated with health choices that are changing our relationship with food. There is media...
The term Anorexia Nervosa was first used in1856 to define an illness characterised by self-starvation. To-date, anorexia is shrouded in myth and it may be helpful to dispel some of the more common beliefs and assumptions surrounding the illness....
Every year, Eating Disorders Awareness Week aims to raise awareness of these mental health conditions that affect so many of us. This year, we were pleased to see some consistent messaging coming through for Eating Disorders Awareness Week,...
Guest post from online training provider, Me Learning. As social media has grown in popularity over the last 10 years, so have the image-focused trends it’s inspired, such as #CleanEating and #Fitspo. While some food and fitness bloggers have...
My eating disorder story is a pretty stereotypical one. I was in my early teens, had very low self-esteem and my coping mechanism was to control the way I looked and lose weight. This quickly spiralled into anorexia, self-harm and depression. ...
NHS England says that 236 patients out of 307 nationwide (76.9%) requiring urgent referrals were given treatment within a week from December 2017 to January 2018. It compares with 155 patients out of 239 (64.9%) in January 2016 seen within a week....
Mental health charity SANE are leading the calls in a bid to promote ‘responsible use of technology.’ Marjorie Wallace, Chief executive of SANE and journalist, believes that constant exposure to social media could potentially be destructive on the...
Eating is one of our innate survival drives that initiates appetite, resulting in the intake of food. Like breathing and reproduction, these drives are hardwired into every human being. Most of us think about food daily – what we’ll cook...
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