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How Body Image Influences Disordered Eating in Teenagers
According to the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, in the USA as many as 10 out of 100 young girls and women have received a diagnosis of an eating disorder. The true number, including boys and non-gender-conforming people, may be much higher as...
Essential Tips for Parents to Use When Talking to Children About Eating Disorders
It’s common for tweens and teenagers to stay quiet about their emotions and the troubles they may face. As they gain independence from their parents and move into adulthood, teenagers want to handle things for themselves, or they might feel embarrassed about their...
How to Address Disordered Eating Behaviors in Adolescents
Teenagers who are experiencing disordered thoughts surrounding eating and food can be blinded by their own thoughts as to the problems that arise from them. Worse, disordered eating behaviors often result from these thoughts – putting them at greater risk for severe...
Start Looking for These Signs of Eating Disorders Sooner Than You Think
Coming to the realization and acceptance that your child is developing an eating disorder such as anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa or binge eating disorder is a difficult scenario for any family. While eating disorders can begin at any age, late adolescence and young...
Are Anxiety and Eating Disorders Related? Examining the Connection
Anxiety disorders and eating disorders are known to occur at the same time. Here, we’ll look at the connection between them and examine what a co-occurring disorder diagnosis means for treatment. Eating disorders affect more than 30 million Americans. Within this...
Hidden Signs and Symptoms of Bulimia Nervosa
Bulimia nervosa is shockingly common, although its widespread presence might not be as well-known as it should be. About 4.7 million women and girls and 1.5 million men and boys live bulimia nervosa, meaning that about 1.5 percent of the female population and 0.5...
A Parent’s Guide to Avoiding Eating Disorder Relapses
As a parent, helping your child secure help for an eating disorder can be quite a challenge, emotionally and in terms of making changes to your life and your child’s. Even more difficult than the initial treatment process, the aftermath of treatment is rife with...
Nutrition Therapy for Eating Disorders in the COVID-19 World
Jenn Burnell MS RDN/LDN CEDRD-S Regional Outreach Manager, Mid-South Territory Monte Nido & Affiliates Regardless of our situation prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, we all have experienced a shift in our connection and access to food. Brunch with friends or a...
Why Individuals with Binge Eating Disorder Self-Isolate – and How Treatment Can Help
Binge eating disorder commonly causes people to self-isolate, leaving them without the company of others and the social support they need. Though necessary, social distancing orders could make matters worse, resulting in near-complete isolation from family, friends,...
How Can Adolescents Maintain Self-Care During The COVID-19 Crisis?
Teens recovering from an eating disorder are at risk of relapse during the COVID-19 pandemic, which has introduced unpredictable and sometimes seemingly unmanageable stress into their lives. Understanding the components of self-care that are most helpful for teens,...
How High School And Collegiate Athletics Impact Students With Eating Disorders
Eating disorders affect children and young adults more than the general population, for a multitude of reasons. Adolescents are full of changing neurochemicals, subjected to stress and trying to establish their place in society. Now with the difficulties that social...
The Importance of Treating Co-Occurring Disorders
When someone has an eating disorder, other mental health issues are more likely to be present as well. These issues are known as "co-occurring disorders." People who have co-occurring disorders face unique obstacles that make treatment of their eating disorder more...
Binge Eating Disorder in Teenagers: How to Spot the Signs
Binge eating disorder is one of the most common eating disorders that can affect teenagers. Unfortunately, it is also one of the most difficult eating disorders to spot and diagnose. As a parent, you need to know the signs of binge eating disorder so you can be on the...
Self-Care during COVID-19
Senior Director of Clinical Programming Melissa Coffin, PhD, CEDS-S shares ways to stay connected during this time of social distancing during COVID-19. Read on to learn some of Dr. Coffin’s tips… If you’ve been working on recovery from your eating disorder, you are...
5 Ways You Might Be Unconsciously Body-Shaming Your Daughter
Eating disorders tend to occur in people who have high levels of stress that they feel are outside their control. Bulimia nervosa and anorexia nervosa, in particular, are disordered ways of coping with social pressures that create a sense of control within the...
5 Ways Social Media Can Trigger an Eating Disorder
Teenagers spend an astonishing 7 hours and 22 minutes a day using mobile devices, not including time spent online for schoolwork, according to 2019 data from Common Sense Media. In the past four years, that number has nearly doubled. Perhaps more shocking, tweens,...
Substance Abuse And Eating Disorders In Teens
Adolescents are at particular risk for many mental health conditions, including eating disorders and these disorders are often co-morbid with others as well. Though roughly 3% of children ages 13-18 will be diagnosed with an eating disorder, the prevalence is more...
The Link Between Trauma And Eating Disorders
Eating disorders often arise from a need to control one's self or environment, and this behavior can be triggered by a traumatic experience. In particular, childhood trauma is very highly correlated with a manifestation of eating disorders later on in life (teens...
What Kinds of Education Can You Expect During Eating Disorder Treatment?
Eating disorders are much more common among adolescents than most people think. In fact, they are more common overall than type II diabetes - and they’re beginning to start earlier and earlier. There are cases of anorexia nervosa in children as young as age 7. This is...
Does Student Athletics Increase the Risk of Developing Eating Disorders?
When students engage in athletics programs, they gain valuable skills, make lasting connections, and improve their physical fitness. As they regularly engage in physical activities, they improve the health of their heart, lungs, and many other systems throughout their...
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