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Eating Recovery Center In the News: The Other Paper
“Fixing Fat Kids”
Ovidio Bermudez, MD, FAAP, FSAHM, FAED, CEDS, Medical Director of Child and Adolescent Services at Eating Recovery Center, recently lent his expert commenary to The Other Paper in an article profiling obesity and bariatric surgery among children and adolescents:
“Most children don’t go to bed one night well and wake up the next morning binge eaters. That’s not the way we get there,” he said by phone from Brazil Wednesday morning, where he was visiting family. “Most people who end up with an eating disorder started with emotional eating. One of the roads to eating related pathology starts with learning to manage emotions with food. That is kind of the way it begins.”
Bermudez said the pathways to obesity are varied and include factors such as genetic traits, lifestyle issues (eating too much and moving too little), physiological traits such as metabolism, emotional issues that facilitate overeating to compensate, and true mental disorders that manifest as eating disorders including anorexia nervosa, bulimia and, in the case of obesity, binge eating.
“After 20-plus years of working with people with eating disorders, under my care, I’ve never had a person with anorexia or bulimia die. But I’ve had several people with obesity die,” said Bermudez. “This is really dangerous. This is a really serious issue.”
Read more here.
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Eating Recovery Center In the News: Redbook Magazine
Dr. Ovidio Bermudez, medical director of the child and adolescent behavioral hospital for Eating Recovery Center, was quoted in a Redbook article about eating disorders in the May issue. His advice on ‘how to help your kids stay normal about food and weight’ was also included as a sidebar to the article.
Pick up a copy of the May issue of Redbook today to read the full article by Sunny Sea Gold.
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CFDA Releases Guidelines for Model Health at Fashion Week
In preparation for New York Fashion Week, the Council of Fashion Designers of America recently released guidelines written by President Diane Von Furstenberg to help maintain a healthier environment for models.
The guidelines included suggestions that individuals within the industry should become educated on detecting the early signs of eating disorders, and models with eating disorders should be encouraged to seek professional help and be required to get cleared by a professional before returning to work. The guidelines also suggested an age limit for employment – models under the age of 16 should not be hired for runway shows, and models under the age of 18 should not be allowed to work past midnight at fittings or photo shoots.
Eating Recovery Center applauds the CFDA for encouraging healthy behavior in the fashion industry. Read the New York Magazine article on the guidelines by clicking here.
Posted in Anorexia Nervosa, Binge Eating, Bulimia Nervosa, General •
Eating Recovery Center In the News: EverydayHealth.com
Diet is a Four-Letter Word: Does Dieting Lead to Eating Disorders?
“With the start of a new year, fad diets and diet talk in general can run rampant; but diets aren’t all they’re amped up to be, and for some they can be quite dangerous. In fact, diets can be a serious trigger to eating disorders.”
Chief marketing officer Julie Holland discusses why diet is a “four-letter word” in the newest post for her blog on EverydayHealth.com.
Read the full blog post by clicking here.
Posted in Anorexia Nervosa, Binge Eating, Bulimia Nervosa, EverydayHealth.com, Meetings/Events •
Eating Recovery Center In the News: Examiner.com (Atlanta)
Eating Disorders Can Kill
“If you saw the obituary in the (Saturday, January 1) Atlanta Journal and Constitution for twenty-eight year old Parisian model, Isabelle Caro, then you know that eating disorders can kill. Ms. Caro was most famous for her very public battle with Anorexia Nervosa, which she lost on November 27, 2010.
Hers is a tragic case, if only one of many, in the universe of the rich and famous who, by virtue of their celebrity, capture our attention. But while models, actors, and sports stars are very visible, eating disorders do not only impact them. In fact, they are occurring in epidemic proportions in the general population and your teenager could be, without your even knowing it, among the sufferers.”
To read the full article, which includes an interview with Medical Director Dr. Ovidio Bermudez, click here.
Posted in About Us, Anorexia Nervosa, Binge Eating, Bulimia Nervosa, General •
Eating Recovery Center In the News: PsychCentral.com
The Rise of Eating Disorders in Kids
The American Academy of Pediatrics recently released a study revealing a significant increase in the occurrence of childhood eating disorders. The study noted that from 1999 to 2006, hospitalizations for eating disorders increased 119 percent for children younger than 12 years.
Margarita Tartakovsky of PsychCentral.com interviewed Dr. Ovidio Bermudez regarding the study’s findings.
Read the full interview on her blog about eating disorders.
Posted in About Us, Anorexia Nervosa, Binge Eating, Bulimia Nervosa, General •
Eating Recovery Center In the News: EverydayHealth.com
Eating Disorders Defined: What’s the Difference Between Bulimia and Anorexia Binge-Purge Type?
“As defined in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, there are three official eating disorders diagnoses: anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa and eating disorder not otherwise specified (EDNOS); as well as one provisional diagnosis: binge-eating disorder.
Within each diagnosis a number of different types of behaviors exist. One such type is anorexia nervosa binge-purge type. So how does this differ from bulimia, which is characterized by binge and purge behaviors? I sat down with Eating Recovery Center’s Medical Director of Adult Services, Emmett R. Bishop, Jr., MD, CEDS, and asked him five clarifying questions.”
Read the full blog post on what makes bulimia different than anorexia binge-purge type on chief marketing officer Julie Holland’s EverydayHealth.com blog by clicking here.
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Eating Recovery Center In the News: KMGH Ch 7
Eating Disorders On Rise In Children
Dr. Ovidio Bermudez was interviewed by Doug Schepman for a segment that aired on KMGH Ch 7. Watch Dr. Bermudez discuss the rise in eating disorders among children and the opening of Eating Recovery Center’s new behavioral hospital for children and adolescents.
Check it out here.
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Eating Recovery Center In the News: EverydayHealth.com
There are a variety of eating disorders resources available to patients, family, loved ones and professionals. Read Julie Holland’s most recent blog entry on EverydayHealth.com about many of the resources available, their contact information and what they offer specifically.
Read the full blog post on The Truth About Eating Disorders blog here.
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Eating Recovery Center In the News: EverydayHealth.com
Dr. Emmett R. Bishop Jr., CEDS, was interviewed for an article on EverydayHealth.com on men and eating disorders.
“When we hear about eating disorders, most people picture stick-thin women. However, with more pressure on men to focus on their appearance in recent years, eating disorders are affecting them as well.
The three main types of eating disorders are anorexia, in which the person essentially starves the body; bulimia, in which the person will binge and then purge the food; and binge eating, in which the person overeats at one sitting, but does not get rid of the food.”
Read the full story here.
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