Mr and Mrs Fieldsend believe that their son James’ battle with anorexia started as a result of a healthy eating class he took at school when he was seven years old. Before the class, James appeared to follow a healthy, balanced diet, but it soon became apparent that he was suffering from an eating disorder. read more »

Previous ‘world’s fattest man’ Paul Mason went from a staggering 70 stone to 30 stone in the last year- but the dramatic loss has left him with bags of excess skin. The weight loss began when he underwent gastric bypass surgery in 2010. Now the 50 year old wants to have surgery to remove the read more »

At the age of 25, Helena Cameron weighed 20 stone and couldn’t walk to the car without her feet throbbing. Helena first started piling on the pounds as a teenager. Anxiety problems caused her to binge eat junk food and gorge constantly on chocolate, crisps and fizzy drinks. She admits that she’d often eat a read more »

As the obesity levels continue to increase, Celebrity Chef Jamie Oliver continues in his quest to make us lead healthier lifestyles. Obesity has been a huge global problem for a long time now, and it is one which does not seem to be improving. In fact, the levels are now described as epidemic, and are read more »

According to figures from the Royal College of General Practitioners, the number of males suffering from eating disorders is increasing. Though it is true that a larger proportion of eating disorder sufferers are female, the charity beat estimates that of the 1.6 million sufferers in the UK, one in every five are male. Because the read more »

Recent research has revealed a rise in the number of young females seeking help for eating disorders. Between 2008 – 2009 1,447 females between the ages of ten and 30 sought help and advice from their GP or practice nurse for help with eating disorders such as anorexia or bulimia. The above figure included 222 read more »

Night eating syndrome (NES) is a new eating disorder which is characterised by a lack of appetite for breakfast and the consumption of more than 50 percent of daily calories after the evening meal followed by waking in the night to consume more food. To receive a diagnosis of NES, symptoms must have been present read more »

Bulimia nervosa is an eating disorder characterised by excessive eating followed by vomiting, laxatives or diuretics. An eating disorder such as this usually stems from a phycological disorder, low self esteem, negative self body image, depression or family issues. A recent study in the Archives of General Psychiatry looked into the risks of having in read more »

Emotional eating refers to eating because of how we are feeling emotionally, regardless of our physical hunger. This could be triggered by anything from anger to sadness but often it can turn into an unwanted and difficult to shift habit. We have all been guilty of emotional eating at some point. Who hasn’t come home read more »

Getting your child to eat healthy can be a challenge at the best of times. It is difficult to get children to show enthusiasm for green vegetables and healthy fruit when they are consistently exposed to so many junk food options. A common catch 22 situation among the parents of fussy eaters is that they read more »