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I'm preparing a presentation to a group of pediatricians, arguing several points:
I believe if I could gather enough of these charts, we could change practice around the world. Will you help me? If you have a chart plotted already, please send it to me. Mark on it when your child's mental symptoms appeared or skyrocketed, and where they abated or receded entirely. If you have not done so, please take all the weight/height data you have and plot it, or send it to me and I'll have someone plot it. Here is the chart to use: Lifetime Growth Chart: For girls up to 20 For boys up to 20 Not just anorexia, by the way: patients with bulimia and BED and all forms of EDNOS as well. Do not think that your loved one's chart doesn't matter. If it DOESN'T show a pattern in this way it is still important. If your child had a lag between weight restoration and symptoms, that's important. I'm tired of waiting around for researchers to establish what parents here already know. And maybe we're wrong! Let's figure it out. |
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