Explore the signs, symptoms, and treatment options for disordered eating. Learn how to identify and overcome harmful behaviors around food and body image.
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Learn how to model a healthy relationship with food and body image for others. Discover strategies to promote positive conversations and attitudes toward eating and self-image.
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Eating disorders are serious but treatable mental illnesses that affect individuals of every age, gender, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, and socioeconomic group. Despite the prevalence of eating disorders among all racial and ethnic populations, these disorders are often depicted in the media primarily among white, thin, young women. This misrepresentation and lack of diversity further perpetuates eating disorders among individuals who do not “fit” the stereotype.
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Diet culture has become an integral part of our society. Diet culture is a system of beliefs and socially-accepted behaviors that prioritize body weight and size over health and well-being. Diet culture constitutes an entire industry that perpetuates disordered eating and eating disorders. While diet culture is damaging for individuals from all walks of life, it is especially harmful to those recovering from an eating disorder.
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In a society in which diet culture runs rampant, you’ve likely heard the trendy term “intermittent fasting”. Intermittent fasting has gained traction for its supposed “health” benefits, and is often used as a weight-loss method. Despite its popularity, this eating pattern has little data to support its use for long-term health outcomes. On the contrary, research indicates a connection between intermittent fasting and the development of certain eating disorders.
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Diet culture is a system of beliefs and socially-accepted behaviors that prioritize body weight and size over health and well-being. Diet culture constitutes an entire industry that perpetuates disordered eating and eating disorders. While diet culture is damaging for individuals from all walks of life, it is especially harmful for those recovering from an eating disorder.
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Exercise is one of the most widely accepted methods for improving one’s overall health and wellbeing. While the benefits of physical activity are seemingly infinite, too much exercise may actually indicate a larger problem at hand. Excessive, compensatory, and compulsive exercise are problematic patterns of exercise that are commonly associated with eating disorders.
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Sugar is one of the most demonized carbohydrates in the modern diet. The consumption of sugar is often compared to the addictive nature of illicit drug use. This bold claim over such a commonly-used household ingredient poses the question: “Is sugar really as addictive as they say?”
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