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YouTuber Nicholas Perry, better known as Nikocado Avocado, is infamous for consuming enormous, and often grotesque, meals on camera. [Trigger warning: disordered eating behavior]He’s eaten everything from a huge serving of noodles covered in melted Blue Heat Takis to an entire 10-pound king crab coated in cheese sauce, all in the name of online fame — and profit.Perry, who is 29 and based in the U.S., has 4.34 million subscribers across three YouTube channels. Outside of his monetized videos, he sells T-shirts and phone cases emblazoned with his face or ironic slogans like “It’s just water weight.” He’s also on…
terovesalainen/AdobeStockCONFERENCE REPORTER“In the United States, there are roughly 28.8 million people with an eating disorder, which is about 9% of our population. Globally, that jumps up to 70 million,” said Rebecca Owens, DNP, MBA, MSN, RN-BC, to the audience of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association (APNA) 35th Annual Conference.Owens explained that up to 80% of eating disorders go undetected or never receive treatment. She felt it was important to start with a review of the 4 big ED classifications: anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder, and binge eating disorder.With 92% of frontline clinicians admitting in hindsight to potentially…
Facebook’s recently leaked internal documents on the mental health harms of Instagram for young people includes what many hailed as a jarring finding. For 1 in 3 teen girls, being on Instagram exacerbates body image issues. This statistic, uncovered by the Wall Street Journal, doesn’t surprise me. When I was in middle school, I was among the 1 in 3. Scrolling past dog portraits and sunset shots, I paused my thumb’s autopilot to look closer at a post in my Instagram feed. A fitness account offered a simple piece of advice: To lose weight, you should never eat when you’re…
Looking beyond the picky eating of childhood, researchers looked at this behavior in college students. Self-identified picky eaters ate significantly less fiber and vegetables and reported greater levels of social phobia than non-picky eaters, according to a new study in the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior, published by Elsevier. Social phobia is the fear of being evaluated during everyday activities by others. “Picky eating is typically defined as the rejection of both familiar and new foods. It is a common occurrence during childhood; however, there are cases in which picky eating can persist into adolescence and adulthood. The primary…
New York(CNN Business) “I have to be thin,” “Eternally starved,” “I want to be perfect.” These are the names of accounts Instagram’s algorithms promoted to an account registered as belonging to a 13-year-old girl who expressed interest in weight loss and dieting. Proof that Instagram is not only failing to crack down on accounts promoting extreme dieting and eating disorders, but actively promotes those accounts, comes as Instagram and its parent company Facebook (FB) are facing intense scrutiny over the impact they have on young people’s mental health. Instagram acknowledged to CNN this weekend that those accounts broke its rules…
New York CNN Business — “I have to be thin,” “Eternally starved,” “I want to be perfect.” These are the names of accounts Instagram’s algorithms promoted to an account registered as belonging to a 13-year-old girl who expressed interest in weight loss and dieting. Proof that Instagram is not only failing to crack down on accounts promoting extreme dieting and eating disorders, but actively promotes those accounts, comes as Instagram and its parent company Facebook (FB) are facing intense scrutiny over the impact they have on young people’s mental health. Instagram acknowledged to CNN this weekend that those accounts broke…
Today I’m going to respond to a dad who is exhausted by the non-stop negotiating that happens during mealtimes with his child who has an eating disorder. I’m going to share my favorite approach to this situation, which is based on FBI hostage negotiation techniques. The letterDear Ginny,I’m so exhausted by mealtimes. I have to negotiate every single bite. My kid literally refuses whatever I serve and then I have to convince them, bite by bite, to eat. It can take hours. I’m completely exhausted and frustrated. Sometimes I yell. Sometimes I just give up. I’m sick and tired of the…
In this episode, I respond to a parent whose child is negotiating every bite they eat. This is a common complaint, because it’s both scary and exhausting to parent when a child talks about every bite they eat. I provide advice based on an FBI hostage negotiation technique. This is effective because FBI negotiators are trained not to pursue a compromise. Their goal is always to save 100% of the lives involved. Similarly, a parent must have the goal of providing meals that are 100% of the meal plan prescribed. I provide a 5-step process to getting through meals. For…
Nutrition is a foundational building block of physical and mental well-being for everyone. The foods you eat have a direct correlation to how you feel both physically and mentally. In eating disorder recovery, food is medicine. We have to feed the body to heal. It’s not so simple when you struggle with an eating disorder, though. Disordered eating behaviors keep people from being able to provide their bodies with all the foods needed to feel their best. Over time, people with an eating disorder develop harmful relationships with food that diminish their ability to consume a whole, nutritious diet. Learning…
Stress changes brain activity in regions related to self-inhibition but does not induce binge-eating. Stress alters brain activity in inhibition network but doesn’t prompt binge-eating, contrary to theory. Stress alters brain activity in self-inhibition areas yet doesn’t trigger binge-eating, according to new research published in JNeurosci. People who binge-eat, a hallmark symptom of several eating disorders, can feel out of control and unable to stop, and often binge after stressful events. This led scientists to theorize stress impairs the brain regions responsible for inhibitory control — the ability to stop what you are about to do or currently doing —…