Mary Sornberger

Drawing attention to one facet of a child’s appearance or health is UNhealthy. As a mother I know this. One insult to an adolescent about his or her appearance, especially from a peer, will drive ...

I strongly disagree with the emphasis placed on a child's Body Mass Index (BMI) and also the use of the word "obesity" in President Obama’s taskforce. Children know what obesity means, and it is a ...

If you are a parent of an anorexic or bulimic and thinking about pursuing the Maudsley approach, reading Harriet Brown’s account of her experience will help you understand how much participation ...

In 2006, a group of parents banded together to spread the word about treating eating disorders, specifically anorexia and bulimia, with the family-based treatment (FBT) that helped save their own ...

Families Empowered and Supporting Treatments of Eating Disorders (F.E.A.S.T.) is a website that parents and caregivers as well as eating disorder patients can turn for information and ...

Families Empowered and Supporting Treatments of Eating Disorders or F.E.A.S.T., with its seemingly ironic acronym, is an eating disorder alliance founded by Laura Collins and an international ...

While searching for natural methods to alleviating the symptoms of eating disorders, I discovered research on the effects of the ancient tradition of yoga on binge eating, bulimia, and anorexia. ...

When I contacted Barbara L. Holtzman, psychotherapist and author of Conscious Eating, Conscious Living; A Practical Guide to Making Peace with Food & Your Body, I asked her if she had any ...

I’d like to reintroduce Dr. Robert McLean a graduate of Howard University’s College of Medicine with an undergraduate degree majoring in Physics form Dartmouth College. He has been practicing ...

During this interview I’ll be speaking with a medical doctor who has been thinking outside the box for over 20 years. Dr. Robert McLean is a graduate of Howard University’s College of Medicine ...

The new and improved versions of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) are Transdiagnostic CBT and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT). Until recently, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) has been ...

“A half-gallon of ice cream was only the beginning. I was capable of consuming 3,000 calories at a sitting. Many mornings I awakened to find partly chewed food still in my mouth….My despair was ...

Many centers for eating disorders that once placed their emphasis on the adolescent female patient are now developing programs specifically for adult women. The University of California has ...

For adult anorexics, dying alone is not as uncommon an occurrence as we might think. It happened to a member of my family. And while researching adult anorexia, I came across another tragic story. ...

Whether the cause is biological, psychological or sociological, bulimia is a dangerous disease. And now there is a group of studies that show Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is, for the ...

If you have an eating disorder, please make sure to spend New Year’s Eve with the people who love you. And if you love someone with an eating disorder, get in touch. Don’t let them spend this ...

In my last article, I wrote about losing my daughter to anorexia and how I believed that families can re-feed their children especially with the training. Now I’d like to briefly explain the ...

As the mother of a daughter who died of anorexia nervosa, I would like to write about a program that I feel, considering my experience, holds new hope for the victims of anorexia and bulimia. The ...

There are many paths to recovery for people with eating disorders. But if you have an eating disorder or if you are a parent trying to find help for your child’s eating disorder, the wealth of ...

The London based Maudsley Hospital’s Eating Disorders Unit views anorexia differently than most American hospitals, reports Maia Szalavitz in Time magazine on Jan. 19, 2009. At Maudsley ...

We are always being told we’re a fat society and that we need to exercise more. Yet for females with anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa, exercise can be deadly. In many cases, due to the ...

The holidays seem to revolve around food, and of course, this is challenging for anyone with an eating disorder. If I could have my younger daughter back again, these are the ten ways I would ...

Compulsive overeating and binge eating are most often discussed as if they were identical. However, Dr. Carolyn Ross M. D., M. P. H., explained on Empowher.com that compulsive eating is different ...

In 2007, Jane E. Brody wrote an article for the New York Times recounting her experience with binge eating as a young woman in the sixties. Then there wasn’t even a name for the disorder. At that ...

You see, Kathy’s social worker found out during their chat that Kathy loves to sing, but she only sings around the house. So this wise woman convinced Kathy to work on her self-esteem first by ...

The National Eating Disorder Association states that “People with negative body image have a greater likelihood of developing an eating disorder and are more likely to suffer from feelings of ...

In 2006, a three year study was published in The Journal of Health Psychology entitled “Self-concept, Self-esteem and Body Weight in Adolescent Females.” As stated in this study, “Eighty girls ...

In June, 2009, Science Daily reported that “A new study connects abnormalities of the "stress" hormone cortisol with symptoms of depression in obese children, and confirms that obesity and ...

After a while, Ann starts to resemble the girls she sees on TV and in magazines that makes her feel even better. So she decides to take up exercise to burn more calories; now it doesn’t hurt her ...

When an overweight-adolescent girl starts to diet, as a society, we applaud her and with good reason. We are a fat nation that is getting fatter. And the sad truth is that our children are doing ...