How to Use eating disorder in a Sentence

eating disorder

noun
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  • And some picky eaters aren't just picky, but grappling with an eating disorder.
    — David Oliver, USA TODAY, 8 July 2021
  • Pham’s nuanced reckoning with her earlier sketches of anorexia show the deep pain of living with an eating disorder.
    — Alex McElroy, The Atlantic, 5 July 2021
  • Jordana Brewster opened up about her history with an eating disorder in a candid new essay for Glamour.
    — Carolyn L. Todd, SELF, 28 June 2021
  • And by weaving these subjects together, her eating disorder never overtakes the narrative or appears glamorous.
    — Alex McElroy, The Atlantic, 5 July 2021
  • Holliday decided to speak out about her eating disorder after getting comments from people who were celebrating her for losing weight.
    — Julie Mazziotta, PEOPLE.com, 24 June 2021
  • Ani is an ambitious, materialistic young woman with an eating disorder.
    — The Week Staff, The Week, 16 Aug. 2021
  • Restrictive eating behaviors and a fixation on body weight are a common feature of another eating disorder, anorexia.
    — Carolyn L. Todd, SELF, 28 June 2021
  • 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 Journal shared a sample of 2,960 of the eating disorder videos with TikTok.
    — Rob Barry, WSJ, 17 Dec. 2021
  • 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
  • Nair had struggled with an eating disorder at ages 14 and 15.
    — Elissa Strauss, CNN, 13 Sep. 2021
  • 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
  • What struck me most about Spencer, though—at times against my will—was the film’s portrayal of Diana’s real-life eating disorder.
    — Emma Specter, Vogue, 21 Mar. 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
  • He’s seen eating disorders develop in people who take the drugs as prescribed.
    — Liz Szabo, NBC News, 31 July 2024
  • Students have developed poor body image, eating disorders and perfectionism at startling rates.
    — Natalie Eilbert, Journal Sentinel, 19 June 2024

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