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Amazing advances have been made in medical sciences since the first international conference on eating disorders (ED) was held in the 1970s, and there have been remarkable changes in the field of ED itself. Back then, virtually all that was talked about was anorexia nervosa (AN); clinicians and researchers were mainly concerned about the possible hypothalamic and endocrine factors that seemed to be...