The Binge Eating Disorder Association (BEDA) has deemed this week (May 27-31) as Binge Eating Disorder Week to raise awareness of Binge Eating Disorder (BED) and to recognize the inclusion of  BED in the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5). This celebratory week consists of an online Keep Reading →

This week’s New York Times article “Many Fronts in Fighting Obesity” about the multiple dietary and cultural influences on obesity is quite interesting. However, especially with this week’s publication of the new DSM-V, the manual from which all psychiatric diagnoses are chosen, and its inclusion of a diagnosis of Binge Eating Disorder for the very Keep Reading →

Co-host of MSNBC’s weekday morning talk show Morning Joe Mika Brzezinski opens up about her struggles with disordered eating on Katie and in her new book, Obsessed: America’s Food Addiction-and My Own. In the book, Brzezinski discusses her addiction to certain food substances and decades of disordered eating – bingeing, then running excessively to burn Keep Reading →