Tag: eating disorder

  • Nation & World

    A gateway to eating disorders

    Young women’s use of diet pills, laxatives for weight control linked with later eating disorder diagnosis.

    3 minutes
    A blue measuring tape wrapped around a medicine bottle, with loose pills scattered around the open lid.
  • Nation & World

    Giving weight too much weight

    Programs to combat obesity may be aggravating eating disorders and undermining their severity, said experts during a panel discussion hosted by Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    ‘Tweens’ feel pressure for perfect bodies

    Ten- and 11-year-old boys and girls feel pressured to have perfect bodies, U.S. and Canadian researchers found. The researchers found a direct association between body satisfaction and weight in fifth graders — part of the age group increasingly known as tweens by those in media marketing…

    1 minute