Risks & Warnings

Read about serious health complications and warning signs that require urgent medical attention. This section covers physical dangers, mental health risks, and when to seek immediate help.

ADHD & Eating Disorders

There are a wide range of reasons as to why someone might develop an eating disorder, some still not being fully understood or even known about and experts a...

Can an Eating Disorder Affect Your Fertility?

The consequences of eating disorders are wide and varied with many people believing that once the eating disorder has been overcome, any health problems are...

Dental Damage and Eating Disorders

Eating disorders include both mental and physical factors and are most often identified by the eating behaviours in which individuals engage. The three most...

Heart Problems and Eating Disorders

Eating disorders, even those that last only a short while, bring with them major risks for long-term health damage. Anorexia (in which an individual severely...

Lanugo and Eating Disorders

Lanugo or the growing of fine white hairs all over the body, is a phenomenon almost exclusively related to anorexia. Unfortunately, as relatively few people...

Oesophagus Problems for Bulimics

Bulimia is an eating disorder characterised by binging eating large amounts of food in one sitting, followed by purging, disposing of this food either by vom...

Osteoporosis and Eating Disorders

Osteoporosis, a disease which weakens the bones and makes them more susceptible to breaks, is just one of the physical health effects of an eating disorder....

Stomach Problems for Anorexics and Bulimics

Anorexics and bulimics often suffer from a variety of physical ailments related to their eating disorders. Anorexics or those who fear weight gain and combat...

The Menstrual Cycle and Eating Disorders

Eating disorders bring with them the possibility of long-term health effects, and disruption to the menstrual cycle is just one of these possibilities. Parti...