eating disorders

Her memoir, Big Girl, is a brutally honest account of a life consumed by food.

After a five-year struggle with anorexia, singer Marilou (our July Ms. Chatelaine) left her career to focus on transforming her relationship with food. Selling 175,000 cookbooks in Quebec alone is just a bonus.

From nothing-but-organic to gluten-free everything, an obsession with purity may be ushering in a new era of disordered eating. But the medical community can't agree on how to handle it.

In an industry that fixates on perfection, Jenifer Ringer developed an eating disorder by 16. She discusses her uphill battle with food, body image and dealing with harsh critics.

The YouTube fitness star talks to James Fell about her experience growing up as a thin woman and shares the most shocking comments she's heard from strangers.