Rumination disorder, or rumination syndrome, is a condition in which someone regularly regurgitates their food after eating it. The food is re-chewed and then either re-swallowed or spat out. The core ...

Patients who regurgitate regularly but without any known cause may have a condition called rumination. Unfortunately, rumination is often confused with other gastrointestinal conditions, which means ...

Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston have found that rumination syndrome, which may cause gastrointestinal issues, often goes undiagnosed, The Print reported Jan. 3. The study, ...

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Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . There is increasing recognition in the gastroenterology field that a number of patients can have eating disorder ...

Eating disorders are about more than just fad diets and vanity; they are a serious mental illness that could ultimately cause the end of someone’s life. It’s estimated that as many as 30 million ...

I am no longer ashamed! I want to share something personal, something near and dear to my heart. At the age of 15, I developed an eating disorder and have struggled with it for a quarter century. This ...

Eating disorders are defined by the American Psychiatric Association as “a behavioral cognition characterized by severe and persistent disturbance in eating behaviors and associated distressing ...