September marks the beginning of fall, back-to-school and football season. But if you’re a die-hard fan of a losing NFL team? Well, chances are you might end up binge eating after a particularly painful game, new research suggests. Fat and sugar for the win The study, published in Psychological Science analyzed how NFL game outcomes …
A recent campaign by Dove reveals that others probably describe you as a happier, prettier version of yourself than you do. Dove Real Beauty Sketches campaign is in sync with the brand’s previous efforts toward showing “real” women in commercials and promoting the idea that all shapes and sizes are beautiful. “Women are their own …
An experimental nasal spray is showing good results in helping people with binge eating disorder (BED) curb their habits, new research shows. At the American Psychiatric Association’s 2013 Annual Meeting, results of a phase II trial with binge eaters and an intranasal naloxone spray were presented, revealing that the spray might be an unlikely solution …
Most U.S. citizens spend meal time alone, according to a new report from research firm NPD Group. The findings may be particularly significant for individuals with eating disorders, as solo eating is a behavior that can be problematic for binge eaters, stress eaters, or bulimics. According to the research, 57 percent of Americans eat meals …
Feb. 23 marks the beginning of National Eating Disorder Awareness Week 2014, but it’s not too early to start thinking about how you can participate. The theme this year is “I Had No Idea,” which aims to raise awareness about how hidden and secretive most eating disorders are and to educate the public on how …
People who suffer from binge eating disorder may have similar decision making patterns as people who have substance abuse issues or obsessive compulsive disorder, a new study reports. The processes could be rooted in the way the brain is structured in these individuals, researchers wrote in the journal Molecular Psychiatry. Daily decisions are either based …
In Australia, it’s more dangerous to have an eating disorder than to hop in the car for a long road trip. In a report commissioned by the Butterfly Foundation, an organization that supports Australians with eating disorders, an estimated 1,828 people died from eating disorder-related deaths in 2012–a number that was about 50 percent higher …
Several studies in the past decade or so have linked bisphenol A (BPA) to weight gain, diabetes and cardiovascular disease. But Richard Sharpe from the Medical Research Council’s Centre for Reproductive Health in Edinburgh, Scotland, says that BPA – a chemical that gets leached from plastic water bottles or food packaging – doesn’t cause all …
A link between eating disorders and several autoimmune diseases has been discovered by Finnish researchers, suggesting that eating disorder risk could be higher in people with conditions like type 1 diabetes or inflammatory bowel disease. The study, which was conducted by researchers at the University of Helsinki, aimed to address the prevalence of autoimmune conditions …
Adolescent females with eating disorders have yet another health issue they may have to grapple with once they’re ready to have children: reproductive problems. A new study from the University of Helsinki found that the likelihood for miscarriage in women with binge eating disorder (BED) was more than triple that of women who do not …
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