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Podcast: Slate Gender and Society
Episode: Well, Now: Eating Disorders Are Rising Among Boys. Why?
Description: Eating disorders are one of the most deadly psychiatric disorders.But for decades, much of the criteria to diagnose one applied only to cisgender girls and those assigned female at birth – like a loss of menstruation. This meant that many cisgender boys and those assigned male at birth fell through the cracks. On this week’s episode of Well, Now: The rise in eating disorders among boys and men with Dr. Jason Nagata, Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the University of California San Francisco. Maya and Kavita will discuss how eating disorders tend to man...