Can My Child Get Well?
I am asked this nearly every week by one parent or another, and I answer reflexively “of course”. In order to do what we do at Kartini Clinic we have…
I am asked this nearly every week by one parent or another, and I answer reflexively “of course”. In order to do what we do at Kartini Clinic we have…
Recently I was making our daily rounds at Randall Children’s Hospital and received a lesson from a very young patient of ours. I say it over and over: “your patients…
I’m not sure how many of you know it, but Kartini Clinic is looking forward to a major expansion. We have signed the lease in a new building which will…
I was recently asked by a professional skeptic, a parent & friend of mine, “why can’t parents re-feed their own children at home without the stamp of approval of the…
When I was a girl, my brothers and sister and I had the usual kid-like responses to the world around us. One of them was innocent astonishment at those less…
I just returned from Tampa, Florida and the 2014 IAEDP conference of professionals involved in the treatment of eating disorders. I was there to talk about the very young child…
At Kartini Clinic we have been embarking on something we call “weight restoration 2.0”. In other words we are trying to move beyond mere weight restoration (as critical as that…
In previous blogs I have spoken to the importance of bench science -- the kind done in the lab to decode the “basic” science that underlies human physiology -- to…
This blog will be short as I am preparing to attend and speak at the F.E.A.S.T. conference in Texas this week. Very exciting! Recently I was asked to consult on…
Despite the fact that we occasionally receive criticism of our Meal Plan for its supposed “rigidity”, what has struck me after years of reading people’s food journals is the degree…