#eating-disorders

#eating-disorders

Editor's Note: This story is part of an occasional series covering disordered eating and diet culture.Getting diagnosed with an eating disorder happened by accident to Emily Boring.She went to her university's mental health office to talk about anxiety she was feeling, and through conversations learned that her behaviors with food were classified as an eating disorder, she said.

NPR's Juana Summers talks with Nooshin Kiankhooy, an eating disorders specialist, about concerns about new guidelines from the American Academy of Pediatrics on treating childhood obesity.JUANA SUMMERS, HOST: For the first time in 15 years, the American Academy of Pediatrics has updated its guidance on how to treat childhood obesity.

A weight loss jab that has gained popularity in the US has been approved for use by the NHS in England.The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) concluded semaglutide, marketed as Wegovy, is safe, effective and affordable.Delivered via an injection into the skin, the drug makes people feel fuller and more satisfied, so they eat less.

At the beginning of 2022, it was expected that by the end of the year, the Online Safety Bill would have become law and the UK would be in the early stages of regulating social media platforms.Instead, as the year winds down, the long-awaited Bill is still in Parliament with key aspects of its structure being debated both in Westminster and beyond.

There are days when you don't feel your best self and then there are days when you feel downright unattractive to yourself, even if not to others.Take it from someone who has experienced both sides of the coin; someone who has heard others tell her she isn't attractive and someone who has felt unattractive and ugly on the best of days; it's not easy to deal with these kinds of negative thoughts.

HEALTH Tribune Opinion articles written in the style of their author."These texts are to be based on verified facts and must be respectful towards people, even though their actions may be criticized.shall feature, along with the author's name (regardless of their greater or lesser renown), a footer stating their office, academic title, political affiliation (if any) and main occupation, or the occupation related to the topic being assessed Many patients who undergo these cheap surgeries in Turkey do not even know what technique they used, nor do they have a report, much less postoperative guidelines.Getty 67 people in Europe have become infected with botulism after undergoing weight-loss surgery with botulinum neurotoxin in Turkey.

Editor's Note: This story is part of an occasional series covering disordered eating and diet culture.More than 1 in 5 kids and adolescents around the world show signs of disordered eating, according to a new study.The study highlights a serious public health issue that often goes underreported and underrecognized, according to the meta-analysis published Monday in the journal JAMA Pediatrics.

This combination of 2017-2022 photos shows the logos of Facebook, YouTube, TikTok and Snapchat on mobile devices.On Friday, Jan. 6, 2023, Seattle Public Schools filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court, suing the tech giants behind TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube and Snapchat, seeking to hold them accountable for the mental health crisis among youth.

A Conservative former minister, who battled with anorexia as a teenager, has urged the Government to ensure the Online Safety Bill protects children from content that glorifies eating disorders.Vicky Ford, who spoke publicly for the first time about her teenage struggle with eating disorders last year, said it is terrifying how many of our children are affected by anorexia today.

In today's ExchangeWire news digest: the Irish DPC hand Meta a €265m fine over privacy concerns; the requirement for social media firms to remove harmful content is scrapped from the Online Safety Bill; and Black Friday ecommerce sales appear to beat experts' forecasts in the US.Irish DPC fine Meta €265m over privacy
The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) have handed a €265m (~£228.7m)

Culture Secretary Michelle Donelan has denied weakening legislation to protect users of big technology platforms.The Online Safety Bill - which aims to police the internet - is intended to become law before MPs break for the summer.But the government has axed a section requiring companies to remove legal but harmful material, which critics said posed a risk to free speech.

Jessica Hausner is the Austrian director whose elegant, refrigerated style has made her a Cannes favourite and her 2009 film Lourdes, about the ordinary world of miracles, is a 21st-century classic.But her recent move to English-language movies has resulted in some nebulous work in the shape of her 2019 picture Little Joe, and so it has proved again with this exasperating and baffling movie.

Young people with eating disorders are coming to harm and ending up in A&E because they are being denied care and forced to endure long waits for treatment, GPs have revealed.NHS eating disorders services are so overwhelmed by a post-Covid surge in problems such as anorexia that they are telling under-19s to rely on charities, their parents or self-help instead.

Urgent action is needed to prevent people dying from eating disorders, the parliamentary and health service ombudsman for England has warned, as he said those affected are being repeatedly failed.The NHS needs a complete culture change in how it approaches the condition, while ministers must make it a key priority, according to Rob Behrens.

For a long time, if Dr. Emily Breidbart, a pediatric endocrinologist at Hassenfeld Children's Hospital at NYU Langone, wanted to put one of her patients on a weight-loss drug, she often chose metformin.It wasn't a perfect option.The drug is approved to treat diabetes, not obesity, and typically leads only to very modest weight loss, she says.