[**Update March 2019: Following a few recent ambivalent/critical reactions to this post, I've made a number of additions to help 1) clarify what I originally meant and 2) reflect changes in my ...

Contrary to common belief, the anorexic life is highly food-centric, as observed in other food-deprived animals but with more intricately experience-privileging forms in humans.

Some psychologists and parents argued that it risked glamorizing the condition, but one performer described the experience as empowering: “Onstage, I can be who I really am.” By Alex Marshall ...

Anorexia is a severe psychiatric condition and the eating disorder with the highest mortality rate. Without treatment, it can cause health complications that may lead to multiple organ failure. Also ...

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 ...

Restricting food intake is one symptom of the binge-purge type of anorexia nervosa. The other main symptom is engaging in binge eating followed by purging through various methods. Anorexia nervosa ...