It’s important to be aware of the connection between food and your emotions. Understanding your emotional triggers and establishing healthy coping mechanisms goes a long way toward maintaining a balanced relationship with food.
How does media exposure affect the way we think about ourselves? What should we know about these harmful influences, and how can we work toward fostering a healthy body image?
Is diet culture actually serving women today, or is it causing more damage than good? Challenging diet culture is necessary if we desire, individually as well as collectively, to achieve the goal of empowering women toward greater self-love and acceptance.
It’s time we start breaking the silence on eating disorders by talking about their prevalence, what drives them, symptomology, physical and mental health risks, and how we can help someone who is battling one.
Fortunately, medications for eating disorders have been successful in treating bulimia and binge eating disorder; however, there is still no proven drug therapy for anorexia. Why not? The answer is complex.