While hospitalizations for eating disorders are down overall, one category is rising at an alarming rate, says the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. From 1999 to 2009, hospitalizations for ...

This week, I would like us to talk more about children and pregnancy pica. Before I proceed, I would like to share one unwholesome practice that has become common during food processing lately. Some ...

The mum-of-two first became aware that he liked to try and eat inedible items when he licked the Velcro in his tactile books as a baby. Since then, the 21-month-old has "scoffed" sand "by the handful" ...

But Jess Harry, from Brymbo, Wrexham, had never heard of Pica - an eating disorder that occurs most often in children and means they crave and eat objects or things with no nutritional value. She has ...

About 9% of U.S. residents will develop an eating disorder during their lifetimes, according to the National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders. Eating disorders most often are ...

October is historically one of the highest-demand months for eating disorder care. Children's Hospital Colorado reports a 73% rise in patients who used its Eating Disorders Program over the last year.

Eating Disorder Exacts a High Toll on Men Too New research shows that men who binge eat experience comparable levels of clinical impairment as women, yet remain underrepresented in clinical trials.

JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-FORT SAM HOUSTON, Texas, Feb. 28, 2024 – According to recent articles in the International Journal of Eating Disorders, children of U.S. military members may be at increased ...