Eating Disorders News

SAN FRANCISCO — Girls with anorexia nervosa experienced significant improvements in anxiety symptoms after estrogen replacement therapy, according to data presented here.

SAN FRANCISCO — Girls with anorexia nervosa experienced significant improvements in anxiety symptoms after estrogen replacement therapy, according to data presented here.

Women who experienced severe physical and sexual abuse during childhood were more than twice as likely to develop a food addiction, according to new study results.

SAN FRANCISCO — The difference between “food addiction” and “food and addiction” will gain public policy significance as the prepared food industry gears up to fight a growing body of data indicating processed foods contribute to negative public health outcomes. The remarks were made by the outgoing director of the Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity at Yale University.

SAN FRANCISCO — The presence of borderline personality disorder may affect the time to remission and relapse of a number of Axis I disorders, particularly anxiety disorders, eating disorders and drug use, according to new data presented here at the 2013 American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting.

Children and adolescents who meet criteria for a newly proposed diagnostic category for DSM-5, avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder, are clinically distinct from those with anorexia nervosa or bulimia nervosa, according to new research.

Exercise level and type are associated with heart rates and length of hospital stays among adolescents with eating disorders, according to a paper presented at the 2013 Meeting of the Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine.

The presence of anorexia nervosa in girls with systemic lupus erythematosus suggested that the eating disorder might be a novel presentation of neuropsychiatric systemic lupus erythematosus, according to research presented at the Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine Annual Meeting in Atlanta.

Researchers from the United Kingdom reported that men and women with mental health disorders were more likely to have experienced domestic violence compared with the general population. The prevalence of domestic violence was observed across a range of mental health diagnoses.

Among adolescents and young adults, binge eating was associated with the onset of high depressive symptoms and obesity, and both binge eating and overeating predicted initiating marijuana and other drug use, researchers reported.