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Sign up to our free Living Well email for advice on living a happier, healthier and longer lifeLive your life healthier and happier with our free weekly Living Well newsletterRebel Wilson has revealed that learning to overcome her tendency to emotionally eat was key to her 80lb weight loss.The actor, who stars in the new Netflix comedy Senior Year, described a “process” of recognising her own value.“It was about dealing with the emotional issues that caused me to emotionally eat, and that’s a process,” she said in a new interview with People. “You cry a lot, analyse things. I’d never…
Remi Bader announced on Tuesday that she’s starting a six-week outpatient treatment program for binge eating. The content creator and model, 26, revealed in a candid TikTok video that she would begin attending a facility on Wednesday, and would spend a few days a week there in hours-long sessions. “I’ll be eating there, I’ll be participating in all their different therapies that they have,” she said. “I’m really hoping that I have positive feedback for you guys where I can really feel better about myself and share everything I’ve learned with all of you.” In the three-minute clip, Bader explained…
Over the past four decades, private equity has become a powerful, and malignant, force in our daily lives. In our May+June 2022 issue, Mother Jones investigates the vulture capitalists chewing up and spitting out American businesses, the politicians enabling them, and the everyday people fighting back. Find the full package here. “I don’t want to die. Please don’t let me die.” Kendall Baker had lost count of how many times her best friend, Katie Farmer, made that desperate, tear-filled plea. Farmer spent her teens and 20s in and out of intensive eating disorder centers that helped her increase her body weight and stop…
Today we’re going to hear from a dad who is worried that his son is angry with his daughter, who had an eating disorder. Sibling rivalry is normal and expected throughout life, but it’s definitely something to pay attention to during an eating disorder crisis and recovery. The letterDear Ginny, A year ago, I would have been writing to you about my daughter, who was almost hospitalized with an eating disorder. But right now, the issue is my son. During the crisis of handling her eating disorder, he seemed fine and was actually really helpful. But lately, he’s been acting out a…
More than half of people diagnosed with one psychiatric disorder will be diagnosed with a second or third in their lifetime. About a third have four or more. This can make treatment challenging and leave patients feeling unlucky and discouraged. But a sweeping new analysis of 11 major psychiatric disorders offers new insight into why comorbidities are the norm, rather than the exception, when it comes to mental illness. The study, published this week in the journal Nature Genetics, found that while there is no gene or set of genes underlying risk for all of them, subsets of disorders –…
Courtesy of Taljat David/Shutterstock Idorsia Pharmaceuticals is no longer continuing research into the use of ACT-539313 to treat binge eating disorders after the drug failed to meet the primary endpoint in its latest trial. The company’s Phase II study on the proposed drug involved 136 patients with moderate to severe binge eating disorder who were randomized to receive either 100 mg of ACT-539313 twice a day or a placebo over the course of 12 weeks. The main endpoint to assess efficacy was the change from baseline in the number of binge eating days per week, where “binge eating” is defined as…
Arcelus, J., Mitchell, A. J., Wales, J. & Nielsen, S. Mortality rates in patients with anorexia nervosa and other eating disorders: a meta-analysis of 36 studies. Arch. Gen. Psychiat. 68, 724–731 (2011).PubMed Google Scholar Smink, F. R. E., van Hoeken, D. & Hoek, H. W. Epidemiology of eating disorders: incidence, prevalence and mortality rates. Curr. Psychiat. Rep. 14, 406–414 (2012). Google Scholar Fichter, M. M., Quadflieg, N. & Hedlund, S. Long-term course of binge eating disorder and bulimia nervosa: relevance for nosology and diagnostic criteria. Int. J. Eat. Disord. 41, 577–586 (2008).PubMed Google Scholar Suokas, J. T. et al. Mortality…
Courtesy of Taljat David/Shutterstock Idorsia Pharmaceuticals is no longer continuing research into the use of ACT-539313 to treat binge eating disorders after the drug failed to meet the primary endpoint in its latest trial. The company’s Phase II study on the proposed drug involved 136 patients with moderate to severe binge eating disorder who were randomized to receive either 100 mg of ACT-539313 twice a day or a placebo over the course of 12 weeks. The main endpoint to assess efficacy was the change from baseline in the number of binge eating days per week, where “binge eating” is defined…
Each May 6th, International No Diet Day offers an opportunity to say a wholehearted “no” to diets and diet culture. Beyond a yearly observance, we each have an opportunity to reject dieting and the culture beneath it every day. How do we start? In a world dominated by news, TV, ads, social media, and conversations about diets, how do we advocate for an Anti-Diet mindset? We wanted to share a few ways you can support the shift for yourself and for others. Knowledge is Power The more you know, the more you can see past the fabricated value of diet…
Disordered eating is a spectrum that includes behaviors such as:restricting foods to an extreme degree, though simply restricting one’s diet to avoid gluten or dairy, for example, is not disordered eating on its ownpurging, either by self-inducing vomiting or by misusing laxatives, enemas, or diureticsbinge eating, which refers to eating unusually large amounts of food within short periodsSome people with disordered eating meet the criteria for specific eating disorders, such as:anorexia nervosabulimia nervosaavoidant restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID)binge eating disorderHowever, it is possible to display disordered eating behaviors without having an eating disorder.Current research on eating disorders often relies on…