Tag: eating disorders

Insights on Mental Health & Wellness

From Eating Disorders to Body Positivity

November 20, 2016 Jeanette Barbosa Noronha Mental Wellness body positivity, eating disorders

Walk into any eatery today and you’ll notice a trend: if there’s a family dining, the plates of the adults and the kids are always more full than those of the adolescents / teenagers. This is simply because persons falling in the age group of 12-20 are always bothered about their body ‘figures’ and what […]

Eating Disorders

July 17, 2016 Savia Gonsalves Mental Health, Mental Wellness adolescence, anorexia, binge eating, bulimia, eating disorders

It is said that four out of ten people either personally suffer from an eating disorder or know someone who has. This would imply that at some point or other, in your life, you would have encountered a person suffering from an eating disorder, whether you were aware of it or not. Sometimes, the person […]