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Intermittent Fasting: More mentally harmful and less physically beneficial than claimed?
Intermittent Fasting and Disordered Eating Intermittent fasting is an eating pattern that limits food intake to specific time periods each day. There are various IF...
New study highlights specific recovery needs of youth with ARFID
ARFID Characteristics During Hospital Treatment ARFID stands for Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder. ARFID is an eating disorder where someone avoids food, but not due to...
EDGI2: The Next Wave of Eating Disorders Research
EDGI1 vs. EDGI2: What's New in the Next Wave of Our Eating Disorders Study? Our Eating Disorders Genetics Initiative (EDGI) study has entered its next...
Copy Number Variants (CNVs) and Their Role in Anorexia Nervosa
Copy number variants (CNVs) are changes in DNA where sections are either repeated (duplication) or absent (deletion). These genetic differences can affect how genes work,...
End of 2024 Update from the EDGI Research Team
As December 2024 arrives, we thought it was a good time to reflect on the year. Here's an update on our activities over 2024. EDGI...
Bringing binge eating disorder out of the shadows
Though often in the news, eating disorders are poorly understood. When thinking about eating disorders, people usually think of anorexia nervosa or sometimes bulimia nervosa,...
Using genetics to understand eating disorders
In May 2023, our Professor Martin Kennedy presented an 8 minute talk on using genetics to understand eating disorders. This talk was inspired by our...
The relationship between night eating syndrome and other eating disorders
Night eating syndrome (NES) was formally recognised as an eating disorder nine years ago, and is characterised by delayed patterns of food intake. More specifically,...
