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Rethinking Body Composition: Is Body Fat Percentage More Useful Than BMI?

---- Leer en español ---- Abstract Despite known limitations, body mass index (BMI) is often used as a marker of health and diagnostic severity in eating disorder care. A growing body of…

Book Review: Secrets in Psychotherapy: Stories That Inform Clinical Work

---- Leer en español ---- (By Kathryn Zerbe, MD. 2025. Routledge-Taylor and Francis; 194 pages) Secrets in Psychotherapy: Stories That Inform Clinical Work is an outstanding new work by Kathryn Zerbe, author of…

Calorie Labels on Restaurant Menus

---- Leer en español ---- New research highlights risks for individuals with eating disorders. Introduction Calorie labeling has become a prominent public health strategy designed to reduce calorie intake in an effort…

EDGI2 Recruitment Is Underway

---- Leer en español ---- A second multinational study of genetic and environmental causes for eating disorders The Eating Disorders Genetic Initiative 2, or EDGI2, is a continuing genetic-environmental study designed to…

Hospital Admissions Across Eating Disorder Diagnoses

---- Leer en español ---- A study in Great Britain compares patients with and without eating disorders When a team of British researchers studied British and Welsh mortality rates and hospital admissions…

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En español Artificial Intelligence: How is it being used in eating disorders settings? In one study, more than half of eating disorders clinicians were using some form of AI, but far fewer…

Redefining Relapse and Recovery in Eating Disorder Treatment

---- Leer en español ---- New insights are helping reframe expectations and clinical goals. For decades, the terms relapse and recovery in eating disorder treatment have been widely used, but not consistently…

Social Media, Body Image, and Disordered Eating in Teens

---- Leer en español ---- Clinical Insights from Emerging Literature Introduction Social networking sites (SNS) are a near-ubiquitous part of adolescent life. A 2023 Pew Research Center report found that 70% of…

Tracking Childhood Abuse and the Body’s Responses

---- Leer en español ---- A newer biomarker shows that early abuse affects the onset and outcome of eating disorders. Researchers in Italy have highlighted the use of biomarkers in eating disorder…

Secrets: An Essay

---- Leer en español ---- Highlights The seemingly simple act of listening closely to another person often brings withheld and powerful confidences to light. Sometimes secrets remain in the shadows because we…

Perinatal Guidelines for Eating Disorder Patients

---- Leer en español ---- A thorough review revealed differences, and recommendations followed About 5% of women with active eating disorders become pregnant. Women with eating disorders are more likely to experience…

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Lisdexamfetamine and Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Binge-Eating Disorder: A Clinician’s Review

---- Leer en español ---- Introduction Binge-eating disorder (BED) stands as the most prevalent eating disorder, with global lifetime prevalence estimates ranging from 0.6% to 1.8% in women and 0.3% to…