Golden Globe Award-winning actress and 1980s fitness superstar Jane Fonda had just gotten over an eating disorder when she released her iconic exercise routine video, Workout, in 1982, she revealed on ...

If you or a loved one has struggled with an eating disorder, know this: You (and they) are not alone. Some 5% of the population has been diagnosed with one before, per the American Psychiatric ...

Dr. Roberto Olivardia is a Clinical Instructor of Psychology at Harvard Medical School and Assistant Psychologist at McLean Hospital in Belmont, Massachusetts. He maintains a private psychotherapy ...

According to a new book, Princess Diana opened up to her dance instructor, former London ballet dancer Anne Allan, about her eating disorder. “Her head dropped and, unable to look me in the eye, she ...

Non-purging bulimia is a type of bulimia nervosa, an eating disorder that involves binge eating followed by compensatory behaviors like excessive exercise. Bulimia nervosa is a type of eating disorder ...

When presented with a vignette describing the behaviors and characteristics of a patient with disordered eating, only a quarter of mental health providers who participated in a new study were able to ...

Eating disorders such as anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa and binge eating disorder are serious health risks, and can be life-threatening. They are also common, especially among teenage girls. More ...

Bulimia nervosa is frequently overlooked not because it is mild, but because it is often profoundly secretive in how it presents and progresses. The disorder tends to unfold in private, with binge ...