Learn how to recognize ARFID signs, such as fear or sensory issues around food. See how empowered families can support ...

Durham non-profit, The Emily K Program, opened the nation's first-ever residential inpatient center of excellence that is ...

Plant-based eating has never been more popular, as people have slowly become more aware of the negative health and environmental impacts of meat and dairy products. But for Melissa Stanger, LCSW, a ...

When people picture someone with an eating disorder, many think of a thin teenage girl with anorexia nervosa. This stereotype ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- This week is National Eating Disorders Awareness Week. One eating disorder that parents may not be as familiar with is Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder. Doctors say when the ...

Loss of appetite, whether from restrictive eating disorders in childhood or illness-driven wasting in adulthood, can trigger lasting, structural changes in the brain. The brain is in constant ...

Nearly 18% of patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), including 16.3% of those with inactive disease, met the criteria for avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID). Among patients ...

ARFID is an eating disorder that causes a person to restrict their diet to specific foods. Someone with the disorder may avoid certain foods for various reasons, including sensory issues. Unlike many ...

The study was conducted by a research team from the University of Sydney, led by PhD candidate Sarah-Catherine Rodan from the Lambert Initiative for Cannabinoid Therapeutics, and is considered the ...

Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID) is a recently established eating disorder defined by a persistent pattern of insufficient nutritional or caloric intake that is not driven by concerns ...