About one in four US adults said they ate all their meals alone the previous day, new analysis found. The 2025 World Happiness Report found solo dining spiked during the pandemic and remains elevated.

One of Sydney’s inner west dining gems, the chefs’ hatted Bar Louise, will close within months after its owners sold its distinctive Enmore Road home to one of the city’s top Italian chefs.

The world of 'mukbang' - where online creators share videos of them eating (often excessive) amounts of food while chatting to followers - has been attracting growing criticism. The trend - which ...

sparking concerns about the dangers of extreme eating challenges popularised online. Efecan Kultur, 24, had gained a large following of 150,000 on TikTok through his “Mukbang" videos. “Mukbang", a ...

Efecan Kultur would binge eat enormous amounts of food. An obese Turkish TikToker who frequently posted videos of himself eating has died at the age of 24. Efecan Kultur, 24, rose to popularity on ...

As mentioned, the binge-eating habit was a result of the Mukbang trend. Efecan's frequent habit of creating mukbang videos eventually impacted his health at one point where he had to frequently ...

The Mukbang trend has become increasingly extreme, with mukbangers eating larger quantities of often unhealthy food, prompting doctors to warn that more people may die. American TikToker ...

For example, weight stigma promotes the idea that individuals must "control" their weight, often leading to harmful eating behaviors and distorted thoughts about food, exercise, and body image.

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. (AP Illustration / Peter Hamlin) A jogger is silhouetted while running on a jetty at sunrise over the ...