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Eating Disorders
Friday's Progress Notes - January 26, 2001
Mental Health Information - Vol. 5 Issue 3
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CONTENTS
1. Practice guideline for the treatment of eating disorders
2. Pharmacological treatment of eating disorders
3. Female athletes and disordered eating
4. Encouraging young teens to make positive choices
5. Gender-related aspects of eating disorders
6. Treating binge eating disorder
7. PBS special on eating disorders
8. Coping with emotional eating
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Dear Colleagues,
Eating Disorder Awareness Week is scheduled for February 25 to
March 4, 2001.
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Jack
John L. Miller, MD
1. AMERICAN PSYCHIATRIC ASSOCIATION
Practice Guideline for the Treatment of Patients With Eating Disorders
The APA practice guideline, revised in January of 2000, organizes
the discussion of treatment around such issues as weight and
physiologic concerns, eating disorder behavior, eating disorder
attitudes and cognition, and special populations.
http://www.psych.org/psych_pract/treatg/pg/prac_guide.cfm
2. VIRTUAL HOSPITAL
Pharmacotherapy of Eating Disorders
The pharmacological treatment of eating disorders is relatively new.
http://www.vh.org/Providers/Conferences/CPS/44.html
3. AMERICAN FAMILY PHYSICIAN
The Female Athlete Triad
The female athlete triad is a combination of three interrelated
conditions that are associated with athletic training: disordered
eating, amenorrhea, and osteoporosis.
http://www.aafp.org/afp/20000601/3357.html
4. US DEPTARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
BodyWise Handbook
The BodyWise initiative was developed to provide school personnel and other adults interacting with students ages 9 to 12 with the information and encouragement needed to create environments, policies, and programs that discourage disordered eating.
http://www.athealth.com/consumer/disorders/bodyimage.html
5. ATHEALTH.COM
Battling an Eating Disorder
Though statistics show that 1 percent of young females in this country suffer with bulimia, the numbers most likely do not reflect the enormity of the problem.
6. MEDSCAPE
No Single Answer to Treating Binge Eating Disorder
Binge eating, without compensatory anti-obesity behaviors of any type, has only recently been accepted as a distinct psychiatric
condition. (Free Medscape registration is required.)
7. NOVA ONLINE
Dying to Be Thin
This is the companion Web site to the recent PBS television broadcast on eating disorders.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/thin/
8. IMPACT PUBLISHERS
Are You an Emotional Eater? Tips to Cope With the Cravings
Emotional eating happens any time you eat not because you are physically hungry but because you have feelings of boredom, depression, loneliness, fear, anger or frustration.
http://www.athealth.com/consumer/disorders/eatinghabits.html
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