Eating alone can lead to overeating, increased stress, and poor digestion. Registered dietitians say that communal eating can help combat the negative effects of solo eating. If you can't eat with ...

As pediatric house staff, my co-residents and I developed a keen ability to provide skillful and compassionate care under stressful conditions. This included managing high patient volumes, treating ...

Recovery from an eating disorder is both an immense accomplishment and an ongoing process. It involves progress and setbacks, and both are normal. The pragmatics of recovery will differ for different ...

Mindful eating makes use of many of the main tenets of mindfulness, including staying fully present with our senses and feelings. Many of you are all too familiar with this routine: You get home late ...

Five individuals shared about their personal battles with anorexia. Eating disorders are deeply personal, but one thing applies across the board – they don't discriminate. "Anyone can get an eating ...

The self-eating process in embryonic stem cells known as chaperone-mediated autophagy (CMA) and a related metabolite may serve as promising new therapeutic targets to repair or regenerate damaged ...

have a kind of stretch sensor in the esophagus (grey structure in the middle). It reports swallowing processes to the brain. If food is ingested, special neurons of the enteric nervous system (red) ...

We welcome new members to our support group. Ask about online participation options if you can't attend in person. Let us know if you're interested. We can give you the timings and discuss costs and ...

For parents with young children, sitting down for a family dinner may not always be the quaint scenario they imagine. Parents may claim their kids are picky eaters, but in some cases, children can ...

Remember when you would come home from school and smell the mouth-watering aroma of your favorite dish on the stove? "Dinner" someone calls, and everyone rushes over, eager to eat and share the highs ...