WW (the company formerly known as Weight Watchers) recently released a free app called Kurbo to help children and young adults ages 8-17 lose weight. Though WW claims that Kurbo gives kids and families a useful tool to support wellness, there are also a number of...
Could a commonly used intervention for anxiety & OCD-related disorders be key to curbing post-treatment relapse in adults with anorexia nervosa? Researchers out of New York Psychiatric Institute set out to demonstrate that Exposure & Response Prevention for...
National Eating Disorder Awareness Week 2018 is a time when families and professionals alike come together to inform their communities, share stories and support one another. This week is internationally recognized and dedicated to fighting the various myths, stigmas...
This study looked at young males and females, transitioning from adolescence to young adulthood, who endorsed self-weighing and examined the relationship between self-weighing and actual weight status along with other psychological and behavioral factors. The study...
Over hundreds and thousands of years, our ancestors developed adaptations to survive famine. When faced with a dramatic shift in energy availability (i.e. decrease in food), the body responds with neurobiological, hormonal and metabolic changes. So what does that...