eating disorder

Doctors who treat eating disorders in Kansas City are seeing more cases among younger people. But resources for "accepting" treatments are not meeting the demand. Plus: Wildlife in the Midwest and Great Plains are suffering from persistent drought.

Doctors who treat eating disorders in Kansas City are seeing more cases among younger people, mirroring national trends. And despite an increased focus on mental illness, resources are not meeting the demand.

U.S. military members have a higher rate of eating disorders compared to civilians. The Department of Defense awarded a $4.2 million grant to a University of Kansas professor to establish screening tools to better detect individuals experiencing or at risk of disordered eating.

The condition is more commonly associated with females, but one in three Americans suffering from an eating disorder is male.

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We eat every day and most of us enjoy it. It satiates our hunger, and provides us with nutrition and complex and pleasurable flavors and textures. But for…