Originally published at Science of Eating Disorders. Please leave any comments there.

Women with bulimia nervosa are three times more likely to struggle with PTSD than women without eating disorders, according to a study by Dansky and colleagues (1997). In that study, 37% of individuals with bulimia nervosa had lifetime PTSD, compared to 12% of ( Read more... )

Originally published at Science of Eating Disorders. Please leave any comments there.

There is a marshmallow in front of you. Can you wait for twenty minutes, starring intently at the white, soft, cylindrical shaped sweet, to get another marshmallow? Or do you devour it right away, forgoing the opportunity to have two sweets? I’d probably wait. But ( Read more... )