When we think of eating disorders, we often imagine adult struggles, but they can affect children and young adults profoundly.
In the powerful documentary, "Spotting the Tiger," narrated by Oscar Award Winner Jamie Lee Curtis, the film emphasizes the importance of recognizing early warning signs of eating disorders in children.…
Are social media platforms making eating disorders in children worse?
The longer I treat children with eating disorders, the more I begin to doubt the usefulness of exact nomenclature. In 2000, at the founding of our Kartini Day Treatment Unit,…
Is anorexia nervosa (AN) a chronic illness? What do we mean when we say that AN, or any other eating disorder, is a chronic illness? Wikipedia says: “The term chronic…
Approximately 1.25 million American children and adults have type 1 diabetes (T1DM), according to the American Diabetes Association. Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune process whereby the insulin-producing cells of…
1) Weight loss in children isn’t normal Imagine you’re a parent of a bright, active 12 year old boy. He gets good grades and has lots of friends. He excels…
Almost anyone who works in a specialized field (such as pediatric eating disorders) spends a great deal of time thinking about diagnostic criteria for diseases and conditions. This is true…
Advances in medicine come in all shapes and sizes: vaccines, antibiotics, anti-virals, immune system boosters and reducers, technological changes and recently, the hope that faster, cheaper and more accurate genetic…
Lots of ink is been spilled on the subject of the stigma associated with having an eating disorder. And in order to discuss the subject sensibly we need to get…
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