Treatment for eating disorders goes mobile

Every day for the past six months, a 29-year-old actress in New York has been logging every meal via an app to monitor what she eats and more importantly how she feels afterward. “It shows the correlation between the emotion and food,” said the actress, who asked to be identified by a pseudonym, Anita.

How mood and eating behaviour are connected

… of hunger. In eating disorders such as anorexia, bulimia or binge eating , food and emotions become entangled in a health-threatening way. Apart from creating problems for the affected individual – from unhealthy diets to excess weight and social …