Is Day Treatment Right for Your Child? A Guide to Choosing Effective Eating Disorder Care
As a parent, you want nothing but the best for your child. So when it comes to finding the right program to treat their eating disorder, it’s important to pick one fully equipped with the specialized knowledge and tools necessary to meet their unique needs. Many eating disorder programs offered today began with treating adults […]
Understanding Emotional Eating through a Spiritual Lens
We live in a fast-paced world and many of us turn to food and overeating as a source of comfort during times of stress, sadness, or even boredom and loneliness. Emotional eating is a common experience and can have profound effects on both our physical and emotional well-being. However, when we delve deeper, we find […]
Malnutrition is a serious medical condition. Talk therapy isn’t always sufficient
People are still dying from eating disorders. This means that people are dying of malnutrition. Yes, in the West, in our world of abundant food, people are dying of malnutrition. And they are doing so right under their doctors, dietician, and therapist’s noses. There are so many ways in which the eating disorder treatment field […]
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What Are “Recovery Bangs” in an Eating Disorder?
Fragile, dry hair, weakened, brittle fingernails, and dull, dry skin are signs of general malnutrition, particularly when calories, protein, and zinc are low. No surprise, then, that hair loss (and bad fingernails and skin) is common in anorexia nervosa. I reassure patients that they are not going to lose all their hair because this is […]
Is Grazing a Problem in Binge Eating Recovery?
In this post, I’ll share some insights surrounding the topic of grazing in binge eating recovery, with the hope that it helps you understand grazing behavior better and any connection it may have to your binge eating. Grazing isn’t an inherently harmful behavior—it can be a way of eating that works for certain people in […]
Christmas Gift Ideas – Perfect Health Diet
Still thinking about Christmas gift ideas, for yourself or others? Here are a few ideas. Perfect Health Retreat We’ve improved the retreat every time we’ve staged one, and it’s now a very special event. Perfect Health Retreats offer: a relaxing and enjoyable vacation on a magnificent and almost-private beach; a training in how to modify […]
OAC Applauds Biden Administration’s Efforts to Increase Access to Obesity Care
Tampa, Fla. — The Obesity Action Coalition (OAC) commends the Biden Administration for raising awareness of the need to expand access to obesity care and reduce the high cost of obesity medications. President Biden’s recent announcement marks a significant step forward in a national effort to enhance care and support for individuals affected by obesity. […]
Recovery stories: Cannabis and eating disorder recovery
In this week’s podcast, Tabitha talks Sophia — a person currently in recovery — about medical use of cannabis in recovery from anorexia. Hello there, welcome to this weeks podcast. This week we are talking about medical marijuana/cannabis for use in recovery from restrictive eating disorders such as anorexia. I am talking to […]
Weekend thinking: The FDA v. salt
The FDA is once again asking food companies to voluntarily reduce the sodium in their products. It says that 40{dfac5e6feebc182a3317a1800a78117261554ecfb6a579338c4abc2638d58697} of food categories have done just that. Prior to 2021, consumer intake was approximately 3,400 milligrams per day on average, far higher than the limit recommended by the Dietary Guidelines for Americans of 2,300 milligrams […]
Thick Dumpling Skin – SMITH Magazine Six-Word Memoirs
SMITH Magazine Six-Word Memoirs Six-Word Memoirs is teaming up with ABC’s acclaimed series Fresh Off the Boat for a new book, Six Words Fresh Off the Boat: Stories of Immigration, Identity, and Coming to America (Kingswell/Disney Publishing 2017). The newest book in the Six-Word series is an exploration of one […]