"No one expects a grown woman in her 40s to have an eating disorder. That's for teenagers, right? Well, guess what – it happened to me." Alexa, a 44-year-old real estate agent, was telling me about ...

When Anne Poirier was 45, she went to battle with her body: restricting what she ate, and exercising for up to five hours a day. “You start to disappear as you age,” she tells Fortune. “Your body ...

A growing number of older women are seeking treatment for eating disorders. Many have struggled without help for decades. In 2012, Janice Bremis went to an eating disorder treatment facility in ...

Adopting healthy eating habits during middle age boosts the likelihood of healthy aging. That’s according to a new study from the Harvard T.C. Chan School of Public Health, which found that a ...

A new study conducted by researchers from the University of Montreal, Harvard University, and the University of Copenhagen explored the impact of consumers’ diets in middle age and how it affects ...

We could all eat healthier regardless of age, but middle age may be a critical time to do so. Results of a new long-term study suggest improving your diet in your 40s through 60s can affect mental and ...

Researchers found that middle-aged adults, especially women, are far more likely to be addicted to ultra-processed foods than older generations. Marketing of diet-focused processed foods in the 1980s ...

Annalijn I. Conklin receives funding from The Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and Michael Smith Health Research BC. Dr. Conklin ...