Episodes
Sunday Sep 18, 2016
Dr Sarah Ravin: How to Find an Eating Disorder Therapist
Sunday Sep 18, 2016
Sunday Sep 18, 2016
In this episode I talk to Florida-based eating disorder specialist Dr Sarah Ravin about the importance of finding a therapist who uses evidence-based treatments for treating eating disorders.
About Dr. Ravin
Dr Ravin specializes in treating children, teenagers, and young adults for eating disorders such as Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia Nervosa, Binge Eating Disorder and other non-specified eating disorders. Dr Ravin also treats these populations for other psychological disorders such as anxiety and depression. She offers individual therapy as well as Family-Based Therapy (FBT) which is also known as The Maudsley Method.
Dr Ravin believes that parents are a sufferers greatest chance in recovery and works with parents to help their child reach a full recovery. She believes that a solid support system is crucial to the recovery process from an eating disorder.
In this podcast on how to find an eating disorder therapist, we discuss:
- What is evidence- based treatment?
- Why is evidence-based treatment is important for eating disorder therapy?
- Why some therapists do not use evidence-based treatment.
- Why non-evidence based treatment approaches can be harmful.
- Questions to ask a treatment provider before you commit.
- The importance of treating the most dangerous aspects of an eating disorder aggressively.
- The problems associated with non-evidence based methods in both the long and short term.
You can find out more about Dr. Sarah Ravin via her webiste: http://www.drsarahravin.com
Sunday Sep 11, 2016
Tara Deliberto on New Resources for Adults Recovering from Eating Disorders
Sunday Sep 11, 2016
Sunday Sep 11, 2016
In this podcast I interview Tara Deliberto. Tara is the director of the new Eating Disorders Partial Hospitalization Program at New York-Presbyterian Hospital.
You’ll be able to hear Tara describe the dynamics of the new program in detail and explain how it came about. We also discuss why this sort of partial-hospitalization program is an essential addition to the treatment of eating disorders in adults.
As an adult with Anorexia, I personally am thrilled about this program because the state of treatment for adult sufferers of eating disorders is currently far from being up to scratch. Most of the time, the sufferer doesn’t actually recover at all in a 2 week inpatient stay. Yes, they may gain some weight, but that’s a superficial sign of recovery from an eating disorder. Full recovery means a lot more than gaining a couple of pounds.
This short of program addresses the ongoing support that is needed for people who are recovering from entrenched eating disorders.
Sunday Sep 04, 2016
Veganism and Eating Disorders: A chat with an anthropologist
Sunday Sep 04, 2016
Sunday Sep 04, 2016
In this podcast I talk to Karen Korn.
Karen is the mother of a sufferer of Anorexia, and has spent the last couple of years helping her daughter battle this deadly disease. Karen is also an anthropologist, and has some ideas about veganism and eating disorders that I think are interesting.
She’s got more of a tactful and thoughtful message than I have I think, as I just tend to bulldoze in with my “nobody who has had an eating disorder can be a vegan” approach, so her ideas might go over better for those of you who bristle at my own.
Anthropology is the study of humans. It’s also the study of human culture, and food is often a large part of our culture, isn’t it?. Regardless of religion or race, there is always a food-orientated holiday somewhere on the calendar. We go through phases as a culture over time too, not so long ago the main phase in Western culture was low fat. You all know how I feel about that one, I only dedicated my book’s title to it “Love Fat.”
While we seem to be making positive shifts towards understanding once again that fat is an important nutrient, we’ve moved on to a new phase or trend in food. All this “Clean eating” and speciality diets. Yes, veganism.
It’s an interesting discussion, we begin by talking about Karens own daughter’s experience of Anorexia and how she went about noticing the problem, to making the first steps around getting treatment.
I asked Karen to shoot me some resources to do with ethical eating, vegainsim etc. Well there is a whole huge long list from her — don’t miss the “solutions” at the bottom— enjoy!
Links
http://www.beyondveg.com/index.shtml
http://naturalhygienesociety.org/diet3.html#4
http://tabithafarrar.com/2016/06/back-veganism-eating-disorders-conversation/ = LOL You’ve been in my Bookmarks for a while now
http://www.livescience.com/26278-risks-raw-vegan-diet.html
http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2012/04/17/is-veganism-good-for-everyone/meat-is-brain-food
http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2012/04/17/is-veganism-good-for-everyone
http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2012/04/17/is-veganism-good-for-everyone/a-choice-with-definite-risks
http://www.mdpi.com/2075-4698/4/2/127
Which diet is best? Vegan, Vegetarian, Paleo, WAPF, Low-Carb….?
http://www.onegreenplanet.org/lifestyle/understanding-neocarnism/
http://www.science20.com/news_articles/vegetarians_found_to_have_more_cancer_allergies_and_mental_health_disorders-133332
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/evolutionary-psychiatry/201211/youre-vegetarian-have-you-lost-your-mind
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/real-healing/201211/vegetarianism-and-eating-disorders
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3466124/
https://ijbnpa.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1479-5868-9-67
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0195666311006271
Study: Vegetarians Less Healthy, Lower Quality Of Life Than Meat-Eaters
http://www.naturalhealthprotocol.com/vegetarianism-and-body-chemistry.html
than-meat-lovers/#sthash.25dQeQQH.jnh7BGCi.dpbs
http://www.scientific-alliance.org/scientific-alliance-newsletter/can-vegetarians-save-world
http://www.palgrave.com/us/book/9781137554888#reviews
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/food/vegetarian-or-omnivore-the-environmental-implications-of-diet/2014/03/10/648fdbe8-a495-11e3-a5fa-55f0c77bf39c_story.html
http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2010/07/is-vegetarian-diet-green
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/foodanddrinknews/8012205/Eat-meat-and-save-the-planet-says-eco-warrior-and-former-vegetarian.html