Size Diversity and Eating Disorders

A more weight inclusive paradigm for health that embraces the diversity of human sizes, has a broader view of wellbeing, promotes weight neutrality in ...

Get Help - National Eating Disorders Association

Are you looking for an eating disorder treatment provider in your area or online? Find treatment here. Are you looking for nutrition counseling that is covered ...

A Plea for Diversity in Eating Disorders Research - PMC

Eating disorders (EDs) are often stereotyped as affecting the SWAG, that is, as affecting mostly skinny, White, affluent girls.

A Guide to Size Diversity | The Bulimia Project

Many ideas about “appropriate” body size and weight, especially in medicine, are tied to the body mass index (BMI). A chart comparing the ...

A qualitative study of perceived social barriers to care for eating ...

The study aim was to identify and describe health consumer perspectives on social barriers to care for eating disorders in an ethnically diverse sample.

Health at Every Size Approach | Eating Disorder Therapy LA

Health at Every Size--Learn why this approach to eating disorder counseling is essential for people of all sizes with eating disorders.

Diseases of affluence? A systematic review of the literature on ...

More research is needed on barriers to treatment for those with lower SES. Abstract. The stereotype that eating disorders (ED) primarily present among ...

5 Things You Need to Know About Health at Every Size

What is Health At Every Size® (HAES)? Here are 5 defining principles of Health At Every Size and how it can help in eating disorder recovery. Read more.

Eating Disorder Statistics | ANAD - National Association of Anorexia ...

Anorexia has the highest case mortality rate and second-highest crude mortality rate of any mental illness.2; 10,200 deaths each year are the direct result of ...

The Need to Improve Eating Disorder Assessment Tools - PolicyLab

Eating disorders are serious psychiatric illnesses associated with high morbidity, mortality and psychosocial impairment.

Culturally-sensitive care for patients with eating disorders

Culturally competent healthcare services aim to deliver the highest quality of care to every patient regardless of race, cultural background, ethnicity, and ...

Health at Every Size: A concept to reduce weight-centric thinking ...

It can increase the risk of disordered eating and eating disorders. With an increasing cultural focus on weight loss, dieting, achieving and ...

Eating Disorders Representation in the Media

Eating disorders are serious but treatable mental illnesses that affect individuals of every age, gender, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, ...

What is HAES (Health at Every Size) - Eating Disorders Families ...

An alternative approach and shift in paradigm from weight bias to weight inclusivity has been recently introduced in the form of “Health at Every Size” [HAES®] ...

National Eating Disorder Awareness Week - Center For Discovery

This year's theme Come as You Are, highlights NEDA's movement towards inclusivity in the eating disorder community with the goal of unifying the field.

Diversity and Eating Disorders: Changing the Face of the Diagnosis

Eating disorders can affect people of all racial and ethnic backgrounds, sexual orientations, body types, and gender identities.

Anorexia Statistics - Gender, Race & Socioeconomics - Bulimia.com

An estimated 30 million people in the United States have had an eating disorder at some point in their lifetime. This equates to about 20 million women and 10 ...

Health at Every Size (HAES) in Eating Disorder Recovery | VERY

Health at Every Size embraces holistic well-being, prioritizes health instead of weight, and fosters a healthier body image – Here's ...

A Global Perspective on Diversity in Eating Disorders - Frontiers

Eating disorders (EDs) are characterized by body image disturbances, abnormal eating, and weight-control behaviors associated with adverse physical and ...

Health at Every Size and Eating Disorder Treatment | Walden

This video blog highlights the ways with which HAES can complement eating disorder treatment and serve as a wonderful resource in eating disorder recovery.