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Picky Eating or Eating Disorder?

Child not eating her meal representing an eating disorder or being a picky eater. AFRID is one such disorder.

When selective eating  signals something more Fact checked by Derick Wilder For years, Julia Ramirez (not her real name), who lives in Chicago’s Hermosa neighborhood, suspected something was wrong with her daughter’s eating habits.  As a baby, her daughter struggled with food, eating only a few baby food flavors and refusing mixed varieties. The selectivity […]

Eating Disorder Surge

Illustration of a woman with an eating disorder and its psychological effects

How Covid-19 created a wave of eating disorders among America’s youth From age 12 to 25, Mackenzie Carmichael felt controlled by the food she both ate and didn’t eat. At 24, after denying her eating disorder (ED) for years, she hit her version of rock bottom and went through inpatient treatment after her friends held […]