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Does My Child Have Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID)? For the most part, kids are pickier eaters than adults. If your child is a “picky eater” you may be wondering whether their eating is normal or not. You may have heard about Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID) and wonder whether your child might have …
Are you struggling with binge eating—eating large amounts of food, and feeling ashamed and disgusted with yourself? Do you try to eat healthily, only to feel like you fall off the bandwagon? Do you repeatedly diet only to find yourself in a pattern of eating uncontrollably? Specialized therapy at EDTLA can help. What is Binge …
![Five Things You Should Know Before Jumping on the Ozempic Bandwagon [Image description: purple scrabble tiles spelling "The truth about Wegovy Ozempic Saxenda"]](https://www.eatingdisordertherapyla.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/wegovy-2-1024x934.jpg)
Interested in trying out Wegovy or one of the new weight loss medications? Here’s what you should know. Second possibly only to the search for eternal life is the quest for thinness. Medical doctors and drug companies have for years been vexed by the challenge of making fat people thin. Accordingly, many solutions have been …
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If you, or a loved one, are struggling to eat, find meals stressful, and are terrified of gaining weight, you may have anorexia nervosa. Contrary to popular stereotypes, anorexia does not only affect affluent thin white young females. Anorexia can impact people of all ethnicities, economic statuses, body sizes, sexual orientations, and genders. You may …
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Maybe you’ve been dieting for years and you can’t get down to the weight you desire. Or maybe you’ve been at a much higher weight, but have successfully lost a lot of weight recently. You still don’t feel satisfied with your weight. Others may be applauding your weight loss. You may be skipping meals, limiting …
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The Milky Way: Why We Encourage Inclusion of Dairy in Eating Disorder Recovery by Shelly Bar, MD, KatieGrubiak, RDN, and Lauren Muhlheim, Psy.D. Dairy is tasty and good for you. Despite this, there are a lot of folks who are scared of it. You may have eliminated dairy from your diet in pursuit of better …
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What is an eating disorder college contract? And do you need one? If you are sending a young adult with a history of an eating disorder to college (or seminary or another away program), it is a good idea to have a college contract in place. This is our recommendation for young adults with anorexia, …
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Eating disorders are not only about body image. Nor have they only recently arisen in response to societal pressures to be thin. In fact, eating disorders date back to at least the 13th and 14th centuries, when it was observed that women were fasting to demonstrate religious devotion. However, today eating disorders do occur in …
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Treatment for Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID) Are you looking for treatment for ARFID in California? Are you or is someone you love a picky eater? Maybe you have been a picky eater since early childhood and have a very narrow list of foods you are comfortable eating. Are you very sensitive to different …
![Instagram to make Diet Ads viewable for ages 18 and over—Why They should Remove Them Altogether - Dangerous of Diet Products on Instagram and Other social media [Image description: photo of a mobile phone with instagram app open]](https://www.eatingdisordertherapyla.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/neonbrand-nZJBt4gQlKI-unsplash-1024x683.jpg)
by Carolyn Comas, LCSW, CEDS-S On September 18th, 2019 Instagram instituted an official policy that all ads promoting diet and weight loss products would only be able to be viewed by users 18 and over. Under this policy, once reported they can remove false ads. This is a huge victory in the world of challenging …