Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. I want you to imagine Derek* (name changed to protect the guilty): tall with jet black hair and just a touch of shy swagger. His ...

Disordered eating comes in all shapes and sizes. Health class. Seventh grade. Nineteen-ninety something or other. “Today, we’ll be talking about eating disorders,” the teacher said. “Read the chapter ...

I was 12 years old, sitting on half-log benches around a dead firepit with some other kids. The oldest woman I'd ever seen in my life strode up to us and sat down. I don't remember everything she said ...

She hadn’t always been a large person. In her youth, she’d won trophies in the discus throw, long jump, badminton, and table tennis. In black and white photos I saw her slim and smiling, with shining ...