Across decades of research that has been done at the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), it has been found that “up to 84 percent of collegiate athletes reported engaging in maladaptive eating and weight control behaviors, such as binge eating, excessive exercise, strict dieting, fasting, self-induced vomiting, and the use of weight loss supplements.” Considering one common environment of sports teams, this is not surprising: … Continue reading Eating Disorders Among Athletes: An Obsession With Health Is Still Unhealthy