Eating Disorders

Troubled celebs struggling to overcome addictions might start pointing their limos in an unlikely direction: the remote Lake County town of Umatilla. The former Florida Elks Children's Hospital in Umatilla is being reborn as a luxury drug-rehab center...

Dear Amy: My father has cancer, along with other health issues. Though his prognosis is fine, my mother seems to be showing a complete lack of concern or involvement with his health care. He has gone to oncologist and radiologist visits by himself. He...

Like other fourth-graders at Evanston's King Laboratory School, Jennifer Dreller's daughter was discreetly weighed during gym class as part of a routine fitness assessment. But the experience took a toll on the 10-year-old's self-esteem, her mother...

By Edith Honan NEW YORK, May 14 (Reuters) - New York City mayoral hopeful Christine Quinn spoke out on Tuesday about her decade-long struggle with bulimia and alcohol abuse after her mother's death from breast cancer. "It was such a challenging time,...

In February 2010, Jonathan Noyes' uncle died suddenly. Several months later, during a summer trip to see the Statue of Liberty, Jonathan's much-loved grandmother started feeling ill. She was diagnosed with cancer and died two weeks before Christmas. Not...

In the 1980s, a Massachusetts college student named Mika Brzezinski made regular late-night grocery store trips so she could binge on junk food, which she'd follow with days of fasting and running. At about the same time, in Connecticut, then-WTNH TV...

Think of a person with an eating disorder and your first thought will likely be of a college coed. Yet children as young as six and retired seniors are increasingly being treated for eating disorders. Those with eating disorders have the highest...

Dear Amy: Some friends and I are members of a pretty no-nonsense gym. The majority of members are hard-core athletes who train for upcoming marathons, while the rest of us are more "well-upholstered" Midwesterners trying to get fit. There is a problem...

It pained me to read that Gwyneth Paltrow was named People magazine’s “Most Beautiful Woman in the World.” Great for her. But horrible for girls. Paltrow is very blond, very tall and very thin. She is a talented actress, looks...

Being a good communicator is a skill that can help you open any door, according to Danville native Beth Marlowe, who, among many other things, teaches middle schoolers just that. Marlowe teaches speech at Bate Middle School and also works for the Beacon,...

Caroline Kendall Kortner led a brief and often hellish life. Born in 1970, Kendall, as she was called, lived out her childhood in the Cos Cob neighborhood of Greenwich. When she was eight, a neighborhood boy began sexually molesting her. Soon after, she...

When Eleanor Stanford boarded a plane to spend two years on the islands of Cape Verde, she had no idea what she was in for. She didn't know the language. She didn't know what the people ate. She didn't even know where she was going to live. -------...