eating disorders

"Don't weigh yourself every day" was the advice experts used to give for those of us trying to lose weight, but a growing number of studies find that people actually lose more weight - and keep it off  - if they step on the scale daily.

It's young women who are obsessed with their body appearance - not mature women over 50, right?

While anorexia, bulimia and other disordered eating habits disproportionately vex the young, older women -- and men -- aren't excluded. A new study found 13 percent of women over 50 currently exhibit at least one core eating disorder symptom. The most common was "purging" (throwing up food) without binge eating (7.8 percent), followed by binge eating (3.5 percent). Overall, nearly three-quarters of all the women said they were currently trying to lose weight.

Sociologists Wonder: Who Will Care For Single Seniors? A growing number of older men and women are "opting out" of marriage, the New York Times reports. Since the 1990s, the divorce rate for boomers has climbed more than 50 percent, even as it stabilized among other age groups. Meanwhile, less adults got married in the first place. The result is a surprising number of Americans in their 50s and 60s heading into old age sans spouse.