The App That Counts Every Bite: Diet Trackers and the Slide Into Disordered Eating A study of 386 young Australian women in Eating and Weight Disorders found diet-monitoring app users reported markedly more disordered eating attitudes and orthorexic tendencies than nonusers, in a cross-sectional design that shows association, not causation. Source Diet-monitoring app users show more disordered eating attitudes, study — Bioengineer.org, October 29, 2026, reporting Eating and Weight Disorders

Fourteen Months Sober: Tom Grennan on Honesty, Guilt, and the Daughter Who Changed Everything Singer Tom Grennan told fellow musician Matt Willis on the On The Menu podcast that he is one year and two months sober, describing how honesty replaced lying, how guilt accumulates, and how fear of losing his baby daughter drove his decision to stop drinking. Source Emma Willis warns Matt over habit that 'drives her nuts' — Brit Brief, October 31, 2026

Screening Worked Differently Than Feared: More Therapy, Fewer Pills Alone An Emory University analysis in JAMA Health Forum found the 2016 recommendation for routine adult depression screening was followed by more psychotherapy alone and less antidepressant-only treatment among distressed adults, with no increase in treatment among adults reporting no distress. Source USPSTF Recommendation's Impact on Depression Care — Physicians Weekly, reporting JAMA Health Forum, 2026 Psychotherapy and Antidepressant Use After the US Preventive Services Task Force–Recommended Depression Screening — JAMA Health Forum / JAMA Network, October 16, 2026

Meta Settles Mid-Trial: The Teen Case That Put Social Media Addiction in Front of a Jury Meta settled with an 18-year-old plaintiff mid-trial in Los Angeles on October 31, in a test case alleging Instagram and Facebook were designed to be addictive and caused mental health problems and disordered eating; the trial now proceeds against Snap only. Source Meta settles with teen during trial testing claims social media caused depression, eating disorders — Reuters, via The Hindu BusinessLine, October 31, 2026

Forty-Three Percent of Teens Gambled Last Year — and the Risk Starts at Thirteen A Rutgers University national prevalence study of 1,677 Americans ages 13 to 27 found 42.7 percent of 13-to-17-year-olds gambled in the past year, and about one in ten young people who gambled screened at high risk for problem gambling. Source 2026 U.S. Prevalence Study Finds High Rates of Problem Gambling Among Adolescents and Young Adults — Rutgers School of Social Work, Center for Gambling Studies, 2026