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What’s Strategic Science Got to Do With Eating Disorders Prevention? Just About Everything

In the world of public health prevention, we have an idea called “strategic science.” Basically, the idea is that when we set out to design a new study, we ought to be thinking about how the study findings could be used by policymakers and…

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Understanding Eating Disorders

Eating disorders don’t happen in a vacuum – they are complex illnesses with close connections to substance abuse, trauma, obesity, and other mental health conditions, such as depression, anxiety, and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).…

5 Things You Didn’t Know About Chewing and Spitting Disorder

One of the most injurious facets of eating disorders is the stigma surrounding them. Despite a growing body of research confirming neurobiological and genetic causes of eating disorders, there are persisting misconceptions that these illnesses…

Understanding, Treating and Coping with Binge Eating Disorder

In collaboration with the Eating Disorder Treatment Collaborative and special guest Chevese Turner, President, Founder and CEO of the Binge Eating Disorder Association (BEDA), NEDA hosted the Beyond Hunger: Understanding, Treating & Coping…

Identifying Eating Disorders: Medical Food for Thought

While both anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa are associated with a litany of medical complications , with timely and successful treatment the vast majority of these complications do not leave permanent residual sequelae (conditions that are…

Nine Truths about Eating Disorders

Truth #1: Many people with eating disorders look healthy, yet may be extremely ill.Truth #2: Families are not to blame, and can be the patients’ and providers’ best allies in treatment.Truth #3: An eating disorder diagnosis is a health crisis…

The Truth about Eating Disorders in the Military

When Dr. Theresa Larson was in the Marines, she began to suffer from an eating disorder. For fear of losing her job, she looked towards outside help that told her what she already knew; she could not open up about her disease. She continued…

A Slippery Slope: Identifying Disordered Behaviors Before They Go Too Far

Disordered eating and dangerous weight-loss behaviors have unfortunately become normalized in our culture. Dieting, “clean eating” and compulsive exercise are often precursors to full-blown eating disorders. This discussion will shed light…

What All Medical Professionals Should Know About Eating Disorders

Anorexia nervosa, bulimia and binge eating disorder affect up to 5% of young women, are associated with high use of medical resources, but often go unrecognized in medical settings. Men with eating disorders are even more likely to elude detection.…

Food, Finances & Eating Disorders

Do you overspend and overeat? Deprive yourself of possessions as well as of meals? If so, there may be a connection between how you spend money and what’s going on with food. Many behaviors with food and finances are strategies…