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True Nature of the Weight Loss Industry by Carrie A. Patient Expert

People's HealthBlogger Awards 2008 - Best 100 Winner!

Posted in: Blog Posts in Eating Disorders Companies that are hawking diets and other weight loss products claim to be interested in your health. Really? They're interested in your wallet. Ditto for "reality shows ... Read on »

Surviving Thanksgiving, Sanity Intact by Carrie A. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Eating Disorders I hadn't planned on doing a "holiday survival" post this year, but after seeing some of the great advice on the Center for Eating Disorders blog, I decided I really ... Read on »

Body Image on the Brain by Carrie A. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Eating Disorders Last week, two interesting research papers were published that looked at the neurological origins of body image distortion in anorexia nervosa. And what researchers found was ... Read on »

Trip to Holland? by Carrie A. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Eating Disorders An interesting allegory is being passed around at the Around the Dinner Table Forum, about parents coming to grips with the fact that their child's eating disorder has changed ... Read on »

Calling all ED sufferers by Carrie A. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Eating Disorders I got an email request from my good friend June Alexander, asking me to post this notice: ED sufferers and caregivers have an opportunity to share their experience in a new in ... Read on »

Food: problem and solution by Carrie A. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Eating Disorders I just noticed this little magnetic notepad that is hanging on the side of my computer. I remember picking it up several years ago at a NEDA conference because I needed to wri ... Read on »

Classifying eating disorders, part one by Carrie A. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Eating Disorders I used to think that eating disorders were an extreme diet (this was a very long time ago). I thought there were people who didn't diet, people who dieted, and people with ea ... Read on »

Nutritional Narcissism by Carrie A. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Eating Disorders Remember when food was just food? I don't. But I try to imagine it sometimes. I grew up in the throes of fast food, Halloween candy, and plates of bacon at breakfast buffets o ... Read on »

Recovery is... by Carrie A. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Eating Disorders ...putting butter pecan syrup on your pancakes even though you don't "have" to. Read on »

Does the media play a role in eating disorders? by Carrie A. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Eating Disorders I got invited to join a Facebook group of this name late last night, and I spent part of the day contemplating my response. I hesitated in writing for several reasons, not the ... Read on »

Vote, vote, vote... by Carrie A. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Eating Disorders ...it'll really float my boat! SO MANY of you have shown your support and voted for ED Bites for the People's HealthBlogger Awards 2009- I can't tell you how much I appreciat ... Read on »

...and lead me not into temptation... by Carrie A. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Eating Disorders One of the questions I get a lot when people hear about my eating disorder history is usually some variant on: but how did you resist all of that tempting food? (This is usual ... Read on »

Improving therapist interest in empirically supported treatments by Carrie A. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Eating Disorders There was a brief but interesting research article this past week on Interesting practitioners in training in empirically supported treatments, published in the Journal of Cli ... Read on »

Oxygen masks by Carrie A. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Eating Disorders For carers of those with eating disorders, the line is often-repeated that you need to put your own oxygen mask on before you can help your child with theirs. And in that cont ... Read on »

Orchids, daffodils, and mental illness by Carrie A. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Eating Disorders I ran across a fantastic article in The Atlantic, titled The Science of Success, which examines the genetics of mental illness. Writes David Dobbs: Of special interest to the ... Read on »

Denying autonomy in order to create it: the paradox of forced treatment by Carrie A. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Eating Disorders I was on the great Neuroscience and Society website at the University of Pennsylvania, looking up more information on the 2010 Neuroscience Boot Camp (which I really hope to a ... Read on »

Gender and mental illness by Carrie A. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Eating Disorders There are, of course, plenty of issues surrounding the issue of gender and mental health, many of which I'm not qualified to discuss. There are issues with diagnosis and trea ... Read on »

Vote, vote, vote... by Carrie A. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Eating Disorders ...like a yummy root beer float! Yes, it's your weekly reminder to add your vote to the 2009 Health Blogger Awards- I'm currently at #8 and would love your support. You do ha ... Read on »

Do gyms have responsibilities towards people with eating disorders? by Carrie A. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Eating Disorders That's the question raised by researcher Rony Duncan. In his "News and Views" piece for the British Medical Journal, published this past September, Duncan argues tha ... Read on »

Early satiety in EDs by Carrie A. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Eating Disorders One of the side effects of eating disorders is a rapid sense of satiety; that is, you feel more full when eating less food. Some of this is strictly physical, as the stomach ... Read on »

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