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UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Limited availability of affordable and healthy foods can contribute to poor health outcomes, especially for residents of rural and low-income regions. That is one of the conclusions of a study conducted by an agricultural economist at Penn State who examined the food environment for residents in the Mississippi Delta, a region that has one of the highest obesity rates in the U.S. The findings have important implications not only in the Mississippi Delta, but for other regions of the country where convenience stores and dollar stores generally comprise the highest proportion of stores available, noted Linlin…
Written by Natalie Doan, MSc, PhD candidate at University of Waterloo in Public Health SciencesWhether that someone is your friend, colleague, patient, student, or loved one, it can be a challenge to decide how you can best support someone with an eating disorder. The theme of this year’s Eating Disorders Awareness Week 2022 is “everyone has a role to play”. In collaboration with Body Brave, Bulimia Anorexia Nervosa Association, Eating Disorder Support Network of Alberta, Hopewell Eating Disorder Support Centre, National Initiative for Eating Disorders, and Sheena’s Place we have developed a conversation guide outlining tips and consideration that we hope you find helpful!Providing support as…
I do this purposefully because I believe there are rare individuals in our world who somehow embody substantive potential and opportunity through failure. They do so better than most and that we can learn from them. I believe that Josie George is one such teacher. Another, sadly gone from us now, was Nadia Chaudhri.We often point to denizens of industry and the megazillionaires of our world as the embodiment potential and opportunity, but they embody vampirism and the exhaustion of resources, people, and all life and therefore they really represent depletion.I do not believe that you must be ill or…
Today we’re going to hear from Ashley, who says her marriage is headed for divorce as she struggles to help her son recover from an eating disorder. This is a really hard place to be, but many people find themselves here at some point. So I’m going to talk through some ways to consider the best next steps and also why making an intentional choice is usually the best choice.The letterDear Ginny, My husband and I have struggled in our marriage since our kids were born, and we’ve been in and out of couples counseling. It’s been rough, but nothing compared…
Your child has been diagnosed with an eating disorder by one of the doctors at Kartini Clinic. Whether this is a restricting disorder with fear of fat, a bingeing and purging disorder or what we call ARFID (avoidant restrictive food intake disorder), it matters little. What matters is that the prospect of treatment is new and intimidating to you. Before treatment was decided on, you may have struggled with typical and understandable ambivalent feelings: are we over-reacting? Are we under-reacting? Is this our fault? Will the doctors and therapists blame us? And of course: how on earth are we going…
Your child has been diagnosed with an eating disorder by one of the doctors at Kartini Clinic. Whether this is a restricting disorder with fear of fat, a bingeing and purging disorder or what we call ARFID (avoidant restrictive food intake disorder), it matters little. What matters is that the prospect of treatment is new and intimidating to you. Before treatment was decided on, you may have struggled with typical and understandable ambivalent feelings: are we over-reacting? Are we under-reacting? Is this our fault? Will the doctors and therapists blame us? And of course: how on earth are we going…
February 10, 2022 Video available at: https://youtu.be/keXmDgGdZF0 Mayor Signs Two Executive Orders to Formalize City’s Commitment to Good Food Purchasing and Promote Healthy Food Advertising on City Property NEW YORK – New York City Mayor Eric Adams today signed two executive orders signaling his administration’s commitment to procuring, preparing, and serving healthy and nutritious food citywide. The orders — signed at the Mercy Center Bronx, an emergency food pantry — further underscore Mayor Adams’ commitment to food justice and to reducing diet-related health inequities and disease outcomes. “If we want to encourage New Yorkers to be healthier, the city must…
Introduction Loss of control (LOC) eating is described as the subjective perception of being compelled to eat or unable to resist or stop eating. LOC eating has been considered a core symptom of several eating disorders, including binge-eating disorder, bulimia nervosa, and anorexia nervosa-binge/purge subtype (American Psychiatric Association [APA], 2013). The experience of LOC eating and the consumption of an unambiguously large quantity of food in a discrete period of time are considered the two hallmark features in the definition of binge eating of the DSM-5 (American Psychiatric Association [APA], 2013). However, cumulative evidence suggests that the experience of LOC…
[Ed. note: This is one in a series of guest blogs by our Kartini School administrator, Mary Gunesch. With schools returning to at least partial in-person instruction we thought it a good time to focus on this subject.] When a student begins treatment at Kartini Clinic, we reach out to their school. We find out what they should work on in their classes – what the learning objectives are – and we support them as they work to achieve these objectives. Some teachers tell us to look at Google Classroom where they post assignments; some teachers stay in regular contact…
[Ed. note: This is one in a series of guest blogs by our Kartini School administrator, Mary Gunesch. With schools returning to at least partial in-person instruction we thought it a good time to focus on this subject.] When a student begins treatment at Kartini Clinic, we reach out to their school. We find out what they should work on in their classes – what the learning objectives are – and we support them as they work to achieve these objectives. Some teachers tell us to look at Google Classroom where they post assignments; some teachers stay in regular contact…