According to the Trevor Project, 29% of transgender women and nonbinary people assigned male at birth have reported an undiagnosed eating disorder, and that number is even higher for transgender men and...
One Nestle Toll House chocolate chip cookie has 180 calories in it. So if I skip breakfast and lunch, and I only eat a little bit of the pizza mom is making for dinner, I’ll survive the cookie. No breakfast,...
Editor’s Note: The following article contains discussions of eating disorders and self-harm.
Walking down the halls of my middle school, I was 12 years old wearing a “Wizards of Waverly Place”...
Editor's Note: Maddy Haberberger, campus representative for National Eating Disorders Association, serves as the social media manager for The Kent Stater and KentWired. Given her role and relationship...
Kent State will offer free eating disorder screenings for National Eating Disorders Screening Day in the Kent Student Center Ballroom on Thursday from 12 p.m. to 4 p.m.Students will have the opportunity...
Students can find out whether they are at risk for an eating disorder through a free screening available Feb. 20 from noon to 4 p.m. in the Student Center Ballroom.Students who attend will fill out a prescreen...
When sophomore nursing major Alexis Himes fainted during a high school basketball game, she had no idea how dangerous her eating disorder had become.“My body was really deteriorating,” Himes said.Himes...
“I remember one day I hadn’t eaten, and my friend brought in homemade fluffy oreos,” Nina Schubert said.“Nina, you’re not going to eat one?” her friend asked.“No, I’ll eat one,” Nina...
Deanna Lavanty was hungry all the time.She started to feel this way after cutting out fat in her diet. In order to supplement her lack of nutrition, she found herself eating up to nine bowls of cereal...
Netflix shocked viewers with “13 Reasons Why” this spring, but the streaming service recently released another controversial title: “To the Bone.”The film’s trailer opens with Ellen — an attractive,...
Kylie McCann had reached her breaking point. Transformed into a person she didn’t know, McCann felt trapped and controlled by her eating disorder when she sought out counseling during her freshman year.“I...
If you break a bone, you wear a cast to show that you’re healing. You wear the plaster reminder of a past battle on your wrist. If you have an eating disorder, the scars are just as real, even if others...
