Who is Most Likely to Have an Eating Disorder?

Eating disorders are severe, potentially life-threatening conditions that involve preoccupations with food, body weight or shape. People with these conditions often engage in restrictive eating behaviors, extreme dieting, binge eating, purging through vomiting or laxative misuse and compulsive exercise. These disorders typically develop in adolescence and young adulthood. They are most common in females, but […]