I have a joke in my stand-up routine about how people react when I tell them I used to be anorexic: ‘They look at me as if to say, “Well, I didn’t know you could recover that well.” ’ Food and my ...

For the past two years Maya has been in the grip of anorexia. Despite her illness, she wants to move on with her life, so this year she decided to sit her A-levels and try to enter university. The BBC ...

Anorexia is full of paradoxes. People suffering from anorexia starve themselves yet feel nausea at the thought of eating, are fascinated and repulsed by watching others eat, compare themselves ...

I made the doctors appointment simply to convince everyone I was fine. For the first half of 2012, my mom had been on my case about my decreasing weight and bizarre eating habits. She even brought up ...

Most childhoods hold happy memories of care-free days with friends but all Anna McVicar can remember is her battle with food. At just 10 years old, she developed anorexia which ravaged her body and ...

My mother and I have just done an interview for the Daily Mail on my anorexia and her role during my illness and my recovery. The journalist was especially interested in what my mother said to me on ...

The number of new anorexia cases among those aged between eight and 12 is twice the number of previous estimates, a new study has found. The study, which looked at figures from the UK and Ireland, ...

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Could anorexia be passed genetically from mother to daughter? That's the disturbing new theory being investigated by a professor of psychiatry at King's College, London. Janet Treasure, head of the ...