How to Use eating disorder in a Sentence

eating disorder

noun
  • Part of the problem was that the eating disorder had turned on her.
    Katie Engelhart, New York Times, 3 Jan. 2024
  • Rates of suicides and eating disorders are on the rise.
    Lisa Jarvis, Twin Cities, 6 Jan. 2024
  • That’s clearly true of eating disorders, which have surged in the wake of the pandemic.
    Sonja Sharp, Los Angeles Times, 30 Nov. 2023
  • The Midnights singer has opened up in the past about her struggles with an eating disorder.
    Brendan Morrow, The Week, 26 Oct. 2022
  • Both short- and long-term stress can lead to substance use and eating disorders.
    Lipi Roy, Md, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
  • The singer had struggled for years with an eating disorder.
    Los Angeles Times, 14 July 2022
  • How can the bones of a young person be so damaged by an eating disorder?
    Stephanie Emma Pfeffer, PEOPLE.com, 8 July 2022
  • The first of the four-part series will discuss how to spot the signs of an eating disorder, and will model healthy eating and body image.
    Laura Groch jan. 27, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Jan. 2023
  • Her True Story, which revealed that the princess was living with the eating disorder.
    Stephanie Petit, Peoplemag, 31 Aug. 2022
  • There's going to be a lot of people with eating disorders.
    Kate Hogan, Peoplemag, 21 Feb. 2024
  • Because of her eating disorder, a staff member was with her at all times almost the entire length of her stay in the Utah desert.
    Sara M Moniuszko, USA TODAY, 20 Feb. 2024
  • It’s been going on for years, but there’s no eating disorder.
    David Chiu, Peoplemag, 27 Oct. 2023
  • Yet with eating disorders, the problem isn’t just AI making things up.
    Geoffrey A. Fowler, Washington Post, 7 Aug. 2023
  • Su was in college and had been struggling with an eating disorder.
    Outside Online, 19 Apr. 2022
  • Kung Minkoff, 41, has opened up about her eating disorder on the franchise and faced skepticism and judgment from her cast mates.
    David Oliver, USA TODAY, 26 Feb. 2024
  • At red, Silverman’s eating disorder brings her life to a halt.
    Audrey Richardson and Aurora Sousanis, Detroit Free Press, 17 Mar. 2024
  • Jennette points to her mom as the root of her eating disorder and believes Debra faced one herself.
    Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 11 Aug. 2022
  • Not to mention a whole other scary side effect in the nexus of diet and wellness: the rise of an eating disorder called orthorexia.
    Amy Larocca, Town & Country, 30 Apr. 2022
  • Her eating disorder developed out of a need to control her body.
    Daliah Singer, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Nov. 2023
  • A lot of my struggles came from gender dysphoria and eating disorders, which very much have to do with the physical form.
    Cat Zhang, Pitchfork, 11 Sep. 2023
  • Rapp still struggles with an eating disorder at age 23.
    Hanna Lustig, Glamour, 25 Aug. 2023
  • It’s had enough of social media posts that try to promote suicide or eating disorders.
    WIRED, 2 Aug. 2023
  • Despite their close friendship, Fiechter was shocked to learn that Sobhy had been struggling with an eating disorder.
    New York Times, 4 May 2022
  • The client’s teenage daughter is now suffering from an eating disorder.
    Joy Ashford, USA TODAY, 6 Apr. 2023
  • The top-five player has spoken openly about her struggles with an eating disorder.
    Lauren Hirsch, New York Times, 21 Jan. 2023
  • Of course, eating disorder TikTok got there too, with creators extolling the virtues of a nearly empty plate, along with sleep for dinner and pills for dinner.
    Jocelyn Silver, Vogue, 25 July 2023
  • Cam Herrera was 14 years old when her eating disorder (ED) started.
    Raquel Reichard, refinery29.com, 29 Mar. 2022
  • Jackie Goldschneider is starting the process of healing after struggling with an eating disorder for the last 18 years of her life.
    Julie Mazziotta, PEOPLE.com, 30 Mar. 2022
  • TikTok has banned the hashtag #thinspo, redirecting users who search it to an eating disorder helpline.
    Breona Couloote, Harper's BAZAAR, 15 Nov. 2022
  • As the Today show site reports, the new season will also see Crystal Minkoff, who joined the show last season, continue to deal with her eating disorder.
    oregonlive, 11 May 2022

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