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Let’s talk about therapy. For some, this could be a touchy subject. For others, perhaps a comforting topic of conversation. Regardless of where you stand, here’s my take on the issue. About a year and a half ago, my mom made the decision to seek help from a trained professional on my behalf. Time and time again, I had proven that I was incapable and unwilling to choose recovery. Thus, she took it upon herself to find help. I expected I would meet with an eating disorder specialist or a recovery coach of some sort. However, this was not the…

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I wonder how others see me now. I wonder if they think eating is easy for me now, that I am recovered. On the outside everything seems fine , even – and I wince as I say it- everything seems normal, or, indeed, “healthy”. Gone, now, is the skinny bony body, the non existent bust on the chest, the cracked dry skin and stick like legs and arms. And now gone too is the one thing that I used to doggedly grasp at, whenever ed used to tell me I was normal and didn’t t need to eat as much good,…

After her daughters opened up about their mental health journeys, Lisa Rinna is examining her own relationship with food.On the “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” reunion that aired Tuesday, Rinna acknowledged her relationship with food could have contributed to younger daughter Amelia Gray Hamlin’s eating disorder.Bravo host Andy Cohen asked Rinna about her daughter’s anorexia revelation during the reunion.“We’ve seen you become defensive when anyone ever questions your – whether you have an issue (with food),” Cohen said. “Do you think there’s anything she picked up from watching whatever your relationship is with food or with your body?”“Probably, yeah,” Rinna, 56, responded. “Do I have…

“I Am Worth Fighting For: Overcoming My Eating Disorder,” Ensign, August 2019 Photograph from Getty Images, posed by model Remember near the end of The Lord of the Rings movie trilogy, where Frodo and Sam, covered in sweat and dirt, are climbing to the top of the volcano in Mordor? Sam asks Frodo, “Do you remember the taste of strawberries?” Frodo responds, “No, Sam. I can’t recall the taste of food.”1 I felt like Frodo three years ago, except I couldn’t remember what happiness tasted like, and the mountain I was climbing was a figurative one—a sharp incline created out…

Study 1 & 2Study 1 aimed to compare the feasibility and effectiveness to increase healthy food choices when composing a colourful meal to a typical, a healthy and a low calorie meal. Study 2 aimed to further distinguish the ease and consequences of promoting a colourful meal versus a varied meal. The typical meal was again included to provide a common comparison condition between studies. Both studies were conducted in a controlled experimental setting, using a realistic Fake Food Buffet [39,40,41,42].SamplesFor Study 1, a power analysis using G*Power 3.1 [48] to detect a small to medium effect (Cohen’s f = .15) in…

Since the founding of Kartini Clinic in 1998 we have operated under the assumption (then almost unheard-of) that anorexia nervosa is a biologically based, heritable human illness of the brain. For that reason we have always taken detailed family histories, and later in the early 2000’s began contributing towards what became a giant genetic study, and now at last reported on by lead author Cindy Bulik. On July 15th the results of the study were published in Nature Genetics: Genome-wide association study identifies eight risk loci and implicates metabo-psychiatric origins for anorexia nervosa (behind a paywall, unfortunately). This is a…

Since the founding of Kartini Clinic in 1998 we have operated under the assumption (then almost unheard-of) that anorexia nervosa is a biologically based, heritable human illness of the brain. For that reason we have always taken detailed family histories, and later in the early 2000’s began contributing towards what became a giant genetic study, and now at last reported on by lead author Cindy Bulik. On July 15th the results of the study were published in Nature Genetics: Genome-wide association study identifies eight risk loci and implicates metabo-psychiatric origins for anorexia nervosa (behind a paywall, unfortunately). This is a…

A global study, led by researchers at King’s College London and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, suggests that anorexia nervosa is at least partly a metabolic disorder, and not purely psychiatric as previously thought. The research was published in Nature Genetics today. The large-scale genome-wide association study, undertaken by over 100 academics worldwide, identified eight genetic variants linked to anorexia nervosa. The results suggest that the genetic origins of the disorder are both metabolic and psychiatric. Anorexia nervosa is a serious and potentially life-threatening illness. Symptoms of anorexia can include a dangerously low body weight, an intense fear…

About 25 percent of the world’s population now struggles to eat ‘safe, nutritious and sufficient food’, UN report says.More than two billion people lack access to healthy food, putting them at risk of serious health problems, the United Nations has said on Monday. About one-quarter of the world’s population now struggles to eat “safe, nutritious and sufficient food”, according to the UN’s State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2019 report. That includes about eight percent of people in Europe and North America, according to the annual study. “We need to look beyond hunger,” said Cindy Holleman, senior…