Eating Disorders

Turns out you’re not just what you eat. You’re when you eat. Because a new study in mice suggests that, in the battle of the bulge, the timing of meals influences the piling on of pounds.

A drug made from the saliva of the Gila monster lizard is effective in reducing the craving for food.

HE sight of a crispy pizza oozing with molten cheese will give anyone an intense pang of pleasure.

Wendy Shiffer, CD , LCCE, DFB, CHBI, PES , certified birth doula and Lamaze childbirth instructor, talks about post-partum depression, including signs and symptoms and what can be done to overcome it.

A naturally occurring compound in the saliva of the Gila monster lizard helps reduce food cravings, by downgrading how rewarding a sweet treat is to rats, new research suggests.

Whitney Ladd Post battled an eating disorder in college and later as a professional rower until she found help.

Biologists once thought that human beings were phys­iological islands, entirely capable of regulating their own internal workings. Our bodies made all the enzymes needed for breaking down food and using its nutrients to power and repair our tissues and organs. Signals from our own tissues dictated body states such as hunger or satiety. The specialized cells of our immune system taught themselves how to recognize and attack dangerous microbes--pathogens--while at the same time sparing our own tissues.

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Editors for all the international editions of Vogue magazine announced on May 3 that they will no longer "A knowingly work with models under the age of 16 or who appear to have an eating disorder." The ban on too-skinny and underage girls in the pages of the world's leading fashion magazine takes effect immediately, with the U.S. edition promising ... (more)

Last sum­mer a team of researchers from the Massa­chusetts Institute of Technology set out to better understand the effects of yogurt on obesity . They were following up on the results of a long-term study from the Harvard School of Public Health that had suggested yogurt , more than any other food, helped to prevent age-related weight gain. The M.I.T. team, led by cancer biologist Susan Erdman and evolutionary geneticist Eric Alm, wanted to replicate the work in mice. The researchers took a group of 40 males and 40 females and either fed the animals a high-fat, low-fiber, low-nutrient diet meant to mimic junk food or fed them standard mouse meals. They then supple­mented half of each diet group with vanilla-flavored yogurt.

The Moore Center, Washington's longest-established treatment center for eating disorders, announced today the opening of its new state-of-the-art treatment facility in Bellevue.

Effective May 2, 2012, the insurance contract with United Behavioral Health removes this critical barrier to treatment for hundreds of patients and families seeking specialized care from Eating Recovery Center's renowned experts each year.

Eating disorders are complicated and chronic mental illnesses that threaten severe physiological and psychological consequences, with anorexia nervosa carrying the highest mortality rates of any mental illness.

Research by the Centers for Disease Control and the National Eating Disorder Association indicate that 80 percent of adult American women are dissatisfied with their appearance.

Obese people have higher risks for diabetes, heart disease, arthritis--and injuries in car accidents? Yes, in part because they’re far less likely to wear a seat belt . That’s the finding of a study out of the University of Buffalo that will be presented at an upcoming meeting of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine in Chicago.

Although most likely everyone in the audience of the Dobbs Ferry PTSA's screening of "Someday Melissa" Thursday night knew the tragic ending of the documentary, it didn't prevent the uncomfortable silence in the Springhurst cafeteria when Melissa Avrin's mother Judy described on screen how she'd found her 19-year-old daughter dead from a heart ... (more)

It seems that every time we hear about the tragic death of a celebrity it is due to a lethal combination of recreational drugs, prescription medications and alcohol.

When Richard P. Martielli took the job as president of the Missouri Psychological Association last summer at age 33, he likely became the youngest person in the country to lead a state psychological association.

Lack of support following traumatic events such as bereavement, abuse and sexual assault could trigger eating disorders.