Hadley Freeman’s “Good Girls” (Bookshelf, May 1) is the most insightful book I have ever read as to the causes of anorexia. Most anorexics aren’t part of the prison system that a psychiatrist ...

OK, so we have some strong evidence for correlations between anorexia and cognitive impairment. (See part two.) Now we can start asking causal questions. It might seem obvious that if cognitive ...

In her review of “Strangers to Ourselves” by Rachel Aviv (Books, Sept. 17), Elizabeth Winkler asserts that anorexia nervosa is “a disorder typically brought on by reading magazines that present ...

Weight gain and related health problems have become a significant concern today with lifestyles becoming more sedentary. Consequently, there is a rising trend of adopting "fad" diets, many of which ...

Young patients who starve themselves risk bradycardia, anemia, bone loss—and even death. Yet few patients receive proper care, experts say. She’s starving but not hungry and skeletally thin but says ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. brain scans of anorexia nervosa patients Anorexia nervosa is a serious mental health condition, characterized by restricted eating ...

Ground-breaking study at UCSF explores how the gut microbiome may hold the key to recovery Dr. Garber’s work has the ...