Durham non-profit, The Emily K Program, opened the nation's first-ever residential inpatient center of excellence that is ...

Plant-based eating has never been more popular, as people have slowly become more aware of the negative health and environmental impacts of meat and dairy products. But for Melissa Stanger, LCSW, a ...

A first-of-its-kind treatment facility is now open in Durham. The facility treats an often misunderstood eating disorder.

Loss of appetite, whether from restrictive eating disorders in childhood or illness-driven wasting in adulthood, can trigger lasting, structural changes in the brain. The brain is in constant ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- This week is National Eating Disorders Awareness Week. One eating disorder that parents may not be as familiar with is Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder. Doctors say when the ...

Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID) is a recently established eating disorder defined by a persistent pattern of insufficient nutritional or caloric intake that is not driven by concerns ...

Eating disorders represent one of the most misunderstood mental health conditions affecting millions of people across all demographics. While many assume these complex conditions stem from simple ...

When people picture someone with an eating disorder, many think of a thin teenage girl with anorexia nervosa. This stereotype ...

When Anne Poirier was 45, she went to battle with her body: restricting what she ate, and exercising for up to five hours a day. “You start to disappear as you age,” she tells Fortune. “Your body ...

You may not have heard of orthorexia, but you’ve probably seen it. It’s an eating disorder that’s characterized as an obsession with only consuming “healthy” foods—and it’s on the rise, says Sadi Fox, ...