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In the recent DSM-5, the manual mental health professions use to diagnose a disorder, 'Gender Identity Disorder' has been renamed 'Gender Dysphoria' in order to make an attempt in changing the current perspective people have on gender. This change resembles that of which homosexuality was dropped as a disorder from the DSM in the 70's. While this is a huge strive for the right direction in the transgender movement, some changes still need to be made. The diagnostic criteria for gender dysphoria only focuses on binary gender identities and does not show acknowledgement of nonbinary identities that some transgender people label as. A diagnoses is crucial for legal purposes, so if a nonbinary individual cannot be diagnosed they may not be able to access hormones for their transition or the legal changes they wish to make.

Obesity has been seen as a behavioral disorder but new studies show the foods contents, such as high fat and sugar, are what cause a person to overeat. Researcher Paul Kenny uses brain analysis on mice to prove his theory.

This article is so interesting and eye-opening. This kind of makes you wonder even if we try to stop eating the junk food and we know it's bad for us, we have a hard time stopping.