Eating disorders have the second-highest mortality rate of any mental illness. And yet, they're often misdiagnosed or underdiagnosed because of stereotypes and stigmas encountered by patients. However ...

Eating disorders are a silent epidemic among men — potentially 40% of all cases by some estimates. Stigma and gender bias keep eating disorders in men from being discovered or taken seriously. Binge ...

Food was cathartic for Max Sala, something that held his life together and at the same time tore it apart. As a child he ate for comfort, arriving for his freshman year of high school, as he put it, ...

Season two of the series Heartstopper on Netflix brings out an issue that is often hidden — male eating disorders. Centered on two teenage boys in love, the show helps bust the common perception that ...

But some become engrossed with caloric intake and body shape. The obsession begins to affect daily life, to the exclusion of relationships and activities. Men with eating disorders are less likely to ...

Intentional starvation, cookie binges, vomiting, hospitalization. The details were typical for an eating disorder. But Jeff Everts might not seem like a typical sufferer. In an era of diet fixation, ...

Jason Wood, an eating disorders advocate and author, says that telling his story helped him overcome the stigma around eating disorders in men. Jason Wood, 38, recalls being taught in a high school ...

Most people believe that eating disorders and body image issues primarily affect women — and that's wrong. When you see a close friend or loved one struggling with an eating disorder, the obvious ...

Transgender men experience high rates of eating disorders due to dysphoria, intense social stigma, and a desire for control in a world that deprives them of it, according to an investigation by LGBTQ+ ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - If new study findings are any indication, eating and exercise disorders may be gaining a foothold among college-aged men. As many as one in five male college students worry ...

They exercise for hours, devise rigid rituals surrounding food, obsessively monitor their weight and yearn to resemble the taut-bodied celebrities whose images grace magazine covers. But the models ...