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Eating Disorders Breed A Wicked Strength

Written by mpingolt on March 12, 2010 - 3:57pm

It’s been two weeks since National Eating Disorder Awareness week and the excitement of body image awareness has dissipated. As expected, people are still discussing new and innovative ways to curb their body fat, lower their dress size, and feeling more secure in their figure - yet - where does the fight end?

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Caffeinated Anorexia: A Personal Account

Written by mpingolt on February 24, 2010 - 3:31pm

Consuming coffee is not allowed at the adolescent treatment center at Remuda Ranch and every drop of fluid is recorded- including water. Located in Wickenburg, Ariz., Remuda Ranch is an outpatient treatment center for eating disorders; ranked as one of the best in the nation and attended by women and girls from all around the world.

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For Bulimics and Anorexics, Mom Uses Maudsley Method and Succeeds

Written by Mary Sornberger on February 18, 2010 - 11:54am

If you are a parent of an anorexic or bulimic and thinking about pursuing the Maudsley approach, reading Harriet Brown’s account of her experience will help you understand how much participation is involved. Harriet Brown is an author, teacher and co-chair of the Maudsley Parents, and her article, “One Spoonful at a Time,” was in the New York Times.

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Anorexia Nervosa

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Anorexics and Bulimics: For Family-Based-Treatment See the Maudsley Parents Website

Written by Mary Sornberger on February 18, 2010 - 11:45am

In 2006, a group of parents banded together to spread the word about treating eating disorders, specifically anorexia and bulimia, with the family-based treatment (FBT) that helped save their own children’s lives. They call themselves the Maudsley Parents and can be found at http://www.maudsleyparents.org.

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Bulimia Nervosa

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Eating Disorders Examined in 'Size Ate'

Written by toriamo on February 17, 2010 - 5:02pm

Margaux Laskey shifted through sixteen different sizes before she finally became a size eight. Sideways. In the glorious finale of Size Ate, Laskey’s one-woman one-act play depicting the triumph of a woman over the prison of numbers, Laskey makes a lifeless number 8 come alive by turning it on its side and transforming into an infinity sign. Infinity is not necessarily huge but more-so indefinable. It is not a number but rather an all encompassing, unfathomable, vast possibility. 8, sideways, insinuates that a woman-- a sister, a mother, a lover-- cannot be incapsulated by something so tiny as a number. This is the lesson Margaux yearns to share with her audience.

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Eating Disorders and Getting Back on Track

Written by Barbara Holtzman on February 17, 2010 - 12:43pm

Anita Johnston, in her book "Eating in the Light of the Moon" describes how we all carry around 2 baskets – one that is filled with food and water and the other which is filled by non-food elements, including rest, loving connections, being in nature, deep breathing, intellectual stimulation, experiencing meaning in our lives… She describes how compulsive eaters attempt to fill all their needs through filling the food basket.

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Eating Disorders

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Making Peace with Food & Your Body

Written by Barbara Holtzman on February 17, 2010 - 12:34pm

Imagine a world where our bodies were all considered equally beautiful. No more dieting (and the binging that naturally follows a diet) in order to conform to this culture’s current standard. What a liberating fantasy!

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Eating Disorders

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Eating Disorders and Relapsing, The Setting Sun, Roll Credits

Written by Laura Collins on February 16, 2010 - 3:35pm

There is so much a parent needs to learn when a loved one is diagnosed with an eating disorder. The beginning is SO HARD and there is so much information and fear and hope and readjustment.

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Eating Disorders

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Is Eating Too Healthy an Eating Disorder?

Written by Kellen Wilson on February 12, 2010 - 2:07pm

They may not be new disorders, but orthorexia and pregorexia are two eating disorders that I hadn’t heard labeled before. One disorder affects people focused on eating only healthy foods. The other affects pregnant women who gain little or no weight when they are pregnant (pregorexia).

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Mom Uses Family Support for Treatment of Anorexia, Bulimia

Written by Mary Sornberger on February 11, 2010 - 6:56am

Families Empowered and Supporting Treatments of Eating Disorders or F.E.A.S.T., with its seemingly ironic acronym, is an eating disorder alliance founded by Laura Collins and an international group of

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Bulimia Nervosa

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