Normal weight and underweight teenage girls who falsely believe they are overweight are at significantly greater risk of succumbing to unnecessary and unsafe weight-loss behaviors than girls who can accurately assess their weight status, according to new research by a University of Illinois expert in eating disorders and body-image perception. Janet M…
For the first time, scientists have discovered a possible biological culprit in the development of eating disorders during puberty: a type of estrogen called estradiol…
People with anorexia nervosa, paradoxically, have strikingly high levels of fat within their bone marrow, report researchers at Children’s Hospital Boston. Their findings, based on MRI imaging of the knees of 20 girls with anorexia and 20 healthy girls of the same age, appear in the February issue of the Journal of Bone and Mineral Research…
Several maladaptive eating behaviors, beyond anorexia, can affect women. Indeed, some 10 to 15 percent of women have maladaptive eating behaviours and attitudes according to new study from the Université de Montréal and the Douglas Mental Health University Institute published in the International Journal of Eating Disorders…
Existing research shows that rates of binge eating among adult women is virtually identical across race. However, among college age women, it’s a different story: Caucasian women are more apt to exhibit binge eating behaviors than African American women, according to a study presented at this month’s annual scientific meeting of the Obesity Society.
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