strategyLiterature searches were undertaken using the databases of OvidMedline(R), PubMed(R), PsychINFO(R) and the Cochrane Library,from inception to the third week of January, 2015. The follow-ing keywords were used: (eating disorders/or anorexia nervosa/orbinge-eating disorder/or bulimia nervosa/) AND (male or menor man) OR (elderly/or late onset/or geriatric/or elderly/or old).To supplement MEDLINE/PubMed/PsychInfo, we also performed abroad search using Google Scholar, which indexes scholarly papersacross disciplines by most major academic publishers and reposito-ries worldwide, further utilizing links to “Related articles” or “Citedby” provided under search results to explore related literature.Literature was also searched by cross-referencing and manually-searching reference lists, to locate studies published prior to or notcovered by online archiving or indexing.