Social media can push vulnerable young people towards developing eating disorders by glorifying thinness and promoting fake, dangerous advice about diet and nutrition, experts warn. Young women and girls are much more likely to suffer from illnesses such as anorexia, bulimia and binge eating disorder, though rates among men have been increasing. Research has shown … Read more
What does a person with an eating disorder look like? The picture may not be as clear-cut as many people think. Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis led a groundbreaking study with an important lesson: Eating disorders don’t discriminate. There’s been a perception that eating disorders mostly affect thin, white women. Our study … Read more
Participants We expected that the 11 participants enrolled sufficed for the purposes of qualitative analyses since sample sizes above nine often achieve coding saturation [29, 30]. Indeed, coding saturation was achieved in the present study. Adult participants were primarily cisgender females (n = 8, 72%) who identified as White and non-Latinx (n = 8, 72%) with a household income … Read more