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Amid a slew of closures and layoffs in the eating disorder market, behavioral health provider Acadia Healthcare (Nasdaq: ACHC) is expanding its eating disorder programming. Acadia is furthering its reach into trauma-focused treatment and wrap-around care, leadership told Behavioral Health Business. The provider also recently launched an eating disorder awareness campaign and plans to add more eating disorder capacity. Dr. Nasser Khan, newly appointed chief operating officer, acknowledged the recent challenges in the eating disorder industry and said that the expansion is “first and foremost” driven by clinical need. “Our clinical strategy and our business strategy are very intermeshed and…

Binge-eating disorder (BED) often improves with time, but full remission can take many years and relapse is common, new research suggested.The study revealed that 61% individuals still suffered from BED 2.5 years after their initial diagnosis, and 45% continued to struggle with the disorder at 5 years.”The big takeaway is that binge-eating disorder does improve with time, but for many people it lasts years,” first author Kristin N. Javaras, DPhil, PhD, with the Division of Women’s Mental Health at McLean Hospital, Belmont, Massachusetts, said in a statement.The study was published online on May 28, 2024, in Psychological Medicine.Clinic Experience vs…

The links between climate and health are well understood. As the world warms and extreme weather events increase in frequency and severity, threats to human health are increasing. That’s very clear at a conceptual level. But at a practical level these two worlds can find themselves operating in isolation. Whether in policy, programs, research, or finance, siloes form. Focus narrows. Connections fray. Systems thinking becomes confined to the system in which we operate. To accelerate our progress towards the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals, we must broaden our horizons and connect both within and across systems. It has been almost 15…

June 4th, 2024 After much consideration, EDV’s SE-ED program will be paused to new participants in an effort to establish an evidence-base for the program.  Since the SE-ED Program commenced in 2022 as a pioneering pilot, 68 individuals have completed the program across six rounds. Throughout this journey, we have continuously reflected, learned, and adjusted to better meet the needs of the Victorian SE-ED community.  We now need to focus on these learnings to plan for the future of the SE-ED Program and build a strong evidence base which we hope will support the global SE-ED community. Therefore, as of…

June 4th, 2024 After much consideration, EDV’s SE-ED program will be paused to new participants in an effort to establish an evidence-base for the program.  Since the SE-ED Program commenced in 2022 as a pioneering pilot, 68 individuals have completed the program across six rounds. Throughout this journey, we have continuously reflected, learned, and adjusted to better meet the needs of the Victorian SE-ED community.  We now need to focus on these learnings to plan for the future of the SE-ED Program and build a strong evidence base which we hope will support the global SE-ED community. Therefore, as of…

If you are a parent or caregiver, desperate to help your child who is struggling with an eating disorder, family-based treatment may be the solution you are searching for. Often, families come into my office worried sick about their child. Their child might have lost a lot of weight or been acting “sneaky” around food. Maybe their child has been over-exercising, using laxatives, or throwing up after eating. Or, they might be worried because their child only eats a small number of foods, or eats a lot of food at once.   Or maybe your child has become an extremely “picky…

Volunteers collected items for the Food Bank of Northeast Arkansas’ annual food drive in November 2022. (Courtesy of the Food Bank of NEA) More than 567,000 Arkansans — 18.6% of the state’s total population — know what it’s like to experience food insecurity and struggle to find access to healthy food. Arkansas’ food insecurity rate in 2022 was the second highest in the nation, with only Mississippi in front by 0.2%. This top two pairing is not new, however, as Arkansas has trailed Mississippi for the last decade, according to Feeding America data released in May. Feeding America was established…

In summer 2023, a team of 10 American University public health and data science students teamed up to examine access to healthy food for District of Columbia residents. Funded by DC Health, the project sent the students to visit 128 food retailers across all eight DC Wards to measure the shelf space dedicated to healthy and unhealthy items. The results were striking. For every three feet of shelf space allocated to unhealthy foods, only one foot was dedicated to healthy options in both full-service and small/medium grocery stores. (Full-service grocery stores are chain stores primarily selling food and beverages with…

For Black Americans, specifically those who are the descendants of enslaved Africans, soul food is more than just cuisine, it’s a cornerstone of culture and community. In many Black families, recipes are passed down the way old-wives tales, cars, or cast-iron skillets are. For many Black Americans, soul food is the meeting place, where, regardless of the occasion, family and friends can find common ground. However, there’s an ongoing and growing concern about the impact of the traditional soul food diet on health outcomes in Black communities.While soul food boasts delicious dishes like fried chicken, mac and cheese, and sweet…

Eight restaurants and eating establishments in Jefferson County scored 84 or below on their health inspections during May — a threshold that triggers a reinspection within 60 days.One of those establishments — the lowest rated in the county last month — already had its reinspection before the calendar was flipped over.Violations ranged from flying gnats to dead insects. Multiple establishments didn’t have signs telling employees they must wash their hands, and one — again, the lowest rated in the county for May — had workers who came back from trips to the dumpster without using hot water and soap.Here they…