The Surprising Similarities Between Anorexia and Obesity
One thing I've observed over the years is that those readers who are interested in anorexia nervosa seem to have little interest in obesity, which they often seem regard as…
One thing I've observed over the years is that those readers who are interested in anorexia nervosa seem to have little interest in obesity, which they often seem regard as…
I am a pediatric eating disorder doctor and try my best to limit my practice to patients 22 and younger. Why is this hard? Because I have a great treatment…
My good friend and colleague Therese Waterhous, a PhD, RD eating disorder specialist and board member of the parent organization F.E.A.S.T., called me the other day. She needed to vent,…
You may have heard me say it before: medicine is as prone to fads as the fashion industry. And worse: tightly held “truths” in medicine can be as entrenched as…
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…
I’m sometimes not sure whom I make madder: some kids, some parents, or some insurance companies! Making kids mad: Me: “Jill, help me understand why your weight would be way…
Providers are finally beginning to dip our toes in the waters which have flowed from the realization that psychiatric and psychological disorders are brain disorders. Case in point: social anxiety.…
Sometimes things happen to me that cause me to wonder what planet I have landed on. Five years ago -- to say nothing of ten or fifteen -- whenever I…
Sometimes I get discouraged by what appears to me to be the excruciating slowness with which new ideas enter the mainstream of medical and psychological teaching and practice. In the…
I have recently received some feedback about our food plan that impels me to add a few details. The food plan has been the backbone of treatment at the Kartini…