Most of us have overindulged at some point, but what should you do if it becomes a habit? If you find yourself binge eating once a week, or more for several months at a time, it could be a serious issue. Binge eating disorder (BED) is now the most common eating disorder in the U.S., since its recognition as a specified eating disorder in 2013. There are three times more BED cases than anorexia and bulimia combined, and it is more common than both breast cancer and HIV. The Na

My anorexia first surfaced when I was 11. In the decades since, I’ve struggled with the disease to different degrees, but one thing was relatively constant: I didn’t get a period. Because of my eating disorder, I’d been amenorrheic (meaning that you don’t menstruate) for almost all of my adult life, so pregnancy never seemed realistic to me. That’s because if you’re not getting a menstrual period, there’s a good chance you’re also not ovulating, so I figured that I couldn’t c

Social media platform advised to follow self-harm picture ban with focus on anorexia Images promoting potentially life-threatening eating disorders are thriving on Instagram and need to be cracked down on in the same way as graphic self-harm images, leading charities and experts have said. The social media giant’s focus on removing graphic images of self-harm did not go far enough, they said, and young people also faced being confronted with pro-anorexia images due to little