Are you interested in learning more about the use of technology-enhanced approaches in obesity and eating disorder treatment? The First Workshop on Telemedicine on Obesity, Overweight and Eating Disorders will take place from 30 January to 4 February 2012 in Valencia, Spain. In addition to the presentation of highlighted uses of technology-enhanced approaches for treatment in clinical psychology and medicine, new results and proposals will also be reported. For further information on this event, please visit here.
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Friday, December 16, 2011
Wednesday, December 7, 2011
Help for eating disorder sufferers
Source: http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk
A NEW day service for people suffering from eating disorders has been established in Sheffield.
The service, based at St George’s Community Health Centre on Winter Street, will help up to 10 patients at a time, who will attend three days a week.
The aim is for the new service to offer a more “intensive” level of care than the existing outpatient service, where people receive treatment for only a few hours a week.
...Continue reading here.
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If you are currently in treatment for an eating disorder, what tools/resources have been an effective part of your recovery journey?
A NEW day service for people suffering from eating disorders has been established in Sheffield.
The service, based at St George’s Community Health Centre on Winter Street, will help up to 10 patients at a time, who will attend three days a week.
The aim is for the new service to offer a more “intensive” level of care than the existing outpatient service, where people receive treatment for only a few hours a week.
...Continue reading here.
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If you are currently in treatment for an eating disorder, what tools/resources have been an effective part of your recovery journey?
Monday, December 5, 2011
Secret is get them while they're young
Good eating habits from an early age can help prevent eating disorders, writes Rachel Browne.
Friday, December 2, 2011
Experts Gather to Combat Rise in Eating Disorders Among Teens
In college, Shari Botwin was always dieting. Sometimes, the Cherry Hill, N.J., psychologist recalled, she would exercise three to four hours a day.
People would compliment her on how good she looked, she said, but eventually she couldn't deny that she had a problem. At 5', 5" tall and 112 pounds, she weighed just barely enough "to keep myself out of a hospital."
Today, Botwin, 41, uses her struggle to overcome anorexia as a tool to help others recognize and combat the illness.
...Continue reading here.
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What do you think is most effective is raising awareness about eating disorders?
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Life after an eating disorder
By Anna Moore
Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk
Hope McKay can vividly recall the lowest point of her life with an eating disorder, though she tries not to picture it too often.
'I was sitting in Asda car park, having just eaten as much cheap food as I could get in the basket – doughnuts, biscuits, packets of ham, milkshakes – and I was planning what to do next to kill the time. I remembered a restaurant down the road – and went down there for lunch.'
...Continue reading here.
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If you have been in recovery from an eating disorder, what are some of the fears and challenges you may have faced throughout your journey? What encourages you to continue to pursue recovery?
Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk
Can anorexics, bulimics and binge-eaters ever fully recover, or are they doomed always to obsess about what's on their plates?
Hope McKay can vividly recall the lowest point of her life with an eating disorder, though she tries not to picture it too often.
'I was sitting in Asda car park, having just eaten as much cheap food as I could get in the basket – doughnuts, biscuits, packets of ham, milkshakes – and I was planning what to do next to kill the time. I remembered a restaurant down the road – and went down there for lunch.'
...Continue reading here.
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If you have been in recovery from an eating disorder, what are some of the fears and challenges you may have faced throughout your journey? What encourages you to continue to pursue recovery?
Monday, November 28, 2011
Israel Association for Eating Disorders
February 4-5, 2013: Israel Association for Eating Disorders to present - Treatment Modalities for Eating Disorders: Consensus and Controversy. Jerusalem, Israel. . International Conference to be To be held at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Jerusalem. Abstract submission deadline is August 31, 2012. For further information, contact Rachel Bachner-Melman at msrbach@mscc.huji.ac.il.
Epidemic of eating disorders put on menu of British Govt inquiry
By Matt Chorley
Source: http://www.nzherald.co.nz
Diet firms are exploiting young people's insecurity to sell quick-fix weight-loss plans that do not work, it was claimed yesterday.
Half of girls and a third of boys, with an average age of 14, have dieted to change their body shape. More than one in 10 would take pills to alter their appearance, according to Central YMCA research.
An influential all-party group of MPs will begin a landmark inquiry this week into body image in Britain, including the problems of anorexia, obesity and self-harm.
They will grill diet companies, psychologists, advertisers and ministers on how to tackle the problem.
Jo Swinson, the Lib Dem MP who will chair the inquiry, claimed conflicting messages prompt people to resort to extreme methods in often misguided attempts to match computer-enhanced images. Experts blame a society fixated on appearance, with airbrushing, celebrities and the fashion industry all in the line of fire.
Swinson said: "In the past 15 years, eating disorders have more than doubled.
There is a view that we should tell people they should be really thin because we are getting an obesity problem. But starving ourselves is not a healthy way to lose weight."
...Continue reading here.
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In your opinion, what role does the diet industry play in the development of eating disorders? How can the epidemic of eating disorders be best addressed?
Source: http://www.nzherald.co.nz
Diet firms are exploiting young people's insecurity to sell quick-fix weight-loss plans that do not work, it was claimed yesterday.
Half of girls and a third of boys, with an average age of 14, have dieted to change their body shape. More than one in 10 would take pills to alter their appearance, according to Central YMCA research.
An influential all-party group of MPs will begin a landmark inquiry this week into body image in Britain, including the problems of anorexia, obesity and self-harm.
They will grill diet companies, psychologists, advertisers and ministers on how to tackle the problem.
Jo Swinson, the Lib Dem MP who will chair the inquiry, claimed conflicting messages prompt people to resort to extreme methods in often misguided attempts to match computer-enhanced images. Experts blame a society fixated on appearance, with airbrushing, celebrities and the fashion industry all in the line of fire.
Swinson said: "In the past 15 years, eating disorders have more than doubled.
There is a view that we should tell people they should be really thin because we are getting an obesity problem. But starving ourselves is not a healthy way to lose weight."
...Continue reading here.
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In your opinion, what role does the diet industry play in the development of eating disorders? How can the epidemic of eating disorders be best addressed?
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