Link between eating disorder, risk, self-esteem, and body image among Puerto Rican high school student-athletes

Given that athletes are often more likely to develop disordered eating due to their perfectionistic tendencies, this 2019 study investigated the degree to which perfectionism and body satisfaction alone contribute to athletes’ dietary behaviors. There were 280 participants recruited by this study, including 192 male and 99 female athletes. The participants were tested on eating […]

The concomitant occurrence of low energy, menstrual derangements, and low bone density is known as the female athlete triad and is thought to be the etiology behind bone stress injuries. In this study by Scheid & Stefanik (2019), the authors investigated the links between the motivation for thinness—an indirect indicator of low energy—and musculoskeletal injuries, […]