Eating Disorders

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Health & Medicine

Why women are more likely to ‘stress eat’

New research has discovered a brain pathway that drives stress-related eating, helping to explain what drives emotional overeating in women

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Rethinking how we see anorexia

Teenagers with anorexia nervosa, the most serious of all eating disorders, don’t have to be ‘skinny’ - it’s possible to be diagnosed at any weight

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Uncovering the brain biology of eating disorders

Technologies like brain imaging and gene mapping are starting to shed light on the biological drivers of eating disorders, including a link to how our eyes track between points, but is prejudice towards a serious mental illness slowing down progress?

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Boys who are unhappy with their bodies are just as vulnerable as girls

Girls are more likely than boys to suffer body dissatisfaction but a new study shows the damage to quality of life is the same