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Julie Duffy Dillon on Fat Positive Attitudes to Nutritional Advice
The Eating Disorder Recovery Podcast
05/09/17 • 43 min
Tabitha talks to registered dietician Julie Duffy Dillon about:
- Why a fat positive approach is needed
- Eating disorder prevention
- Food is not on a dichotomy of good and bad
- Education and research on fat positive approaches
- The problem with people with eating disorders becoming nutritional advisors
- The canary in the coal mine
- The problem with nutritional science
- Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome and eating disorder
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Laura Collins Lyster-Mensh: The Power of Community Support
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02/13/17 • 52 min
In this podcast Tabitha gets to talk to one of her favorite eating disorder experts: Laura Collins Lyster-Mensh. We discuss FEAST, eating disorder peer support forums, and how to take the sting out of an eating disorder diagnosis for the family members involved.
Laura founded FEAST, and this website is a true gift for any parent navigating the world of eating disorders. Since FEAST Laura has stayed active in the eating disorder parent community and works with treatment centers on how they can better gear services towards families from start to end.
Laura Collins Lyster-Mensh wrote the book “Eating With Your Anorexic,” which provided a blueprint for all parents struggling with the elemental challenge of parenting a child with anorexia nervosa.
In 2008, Laura became the original Executive Director of FEAST — Families Empowered and Supporting Treatment of Eating Disorders.
Laura now operates Circum Mensam. She offers her knowledge and experience in the field of eating disorders from a parent perspective to educational and advocacy organizations. Starting in 2017 Laura is also providing services for parents as well: through private consultations and Starfish Packages.
Laura Collins Lyster-Mensh now offers “Starfish Packages,” a colorful Priority Mail package filled with information and courage for parents of newly diagnosed patients. She also hosts a new podcast called NEW PLATES about how parents and treatment teams can collaborate to support eating disorder patients toward recovery, and build resilient families.We want your feedback!
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How ARFID differs from AN/BN — science of picky eating
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06/19/17 • 34 min
Tabitha Farrar talks to Hana Zickgraf about a recently published research paper titled: Adult picky eaters with symptoms of avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder: comparable distress and comorbidity but different eating behaviors compared to those with disordered eating symptoms
Link to orginal study: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5086050/
Study summary
Picky eaters are people who avoid many new and familiar foods because they dislike their taste, smell, texture, or appearance. When it is severe, picky eating can lead to weight loss or difficulty maintaining a healthy weight, nutritional deficiencies, dependence on supplements to get adequate nutrition or calories, or difficulty engaging in daily life because of shame, anxiety, or inconvenience. People who experience one or more of these consequences because of their picky eating can be diagnosed with Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID). People who restrict the amount of food they consume because they are afraid of gaining weight or being fat (and who usually engage in excessive exercise or purging behaviors to get rid of calories) are diagnosed with anorexia or bulimia when their eating leads to weight loss, nutritional problems, or interferes with life. ARFID is a new diagnosis, and in this paper, we show that 1) adults with ARFID symptoms are just as distressed, and just as likely to have symptoms of depression, anxiety, and obsessive compulsive disorder, as those with anorexia or bulimia, but that 2) adults with ARFID symptoms show very different types of eating behavior from adults with symptoms of anorexia or bulimia.

Rebecca Scritchfield 2018: Body Kindness and postpartum body image
The Eating Disorder Recovery Podcast
06/09/18 • 46 min
Rebecca Scritchfield is a registered dietitian nutritionist, certified exercise physiologist, author of the book Body Kindness, and host of the Body Kindness podcast. Through her weight-inclusive counseling practice, she helps people make peace with food, find the joy in exercise, and create a better life with workable goals that fit individual interests. Central to all her work, Rebecca aims to develop self-compassion in place of shame by rejecting the rules of diet culture and the pervasive myth that to achieve better health one must lose weight.
Using her Body Kindness philosophy, Rebecca mentors registered dietitians and supports women from around the world in collaborative, online learning spaces free from unhelpful diet chatter and negative body talk.
Rebecca has influenced millions through her writing, podcast, and appearances in over 100 media outlets including NBC Nightly News, CNN, the TODAY show, the Washington Post, O Magazine, Self, Real Simple, Health, Yoga Journal, and many others. She lives in Washington, D.C., where she was recently recognized as one of ten “Supermom” entrepreneurs in the Nation’s Capital.
LINKS:
Postpartum Body Image Research Study: Body Kindness Reader Survey with option for free Body Kindness e-book
https://www.bodykindnessbook.com/research/
Free Body Kindness E-Course, Book Chapter
https://www.bodykindnessbook.com/get-started/
Articles:
Whole 30
Take Fat Shaming Out of Fitness Culture https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/wellness/why-we-need-to-take-fat-shaming-out-of-fitness-culture/2018/03/08/728365ac-1e31-11e8-9de1-147dd2df3829_story.html
Why Fear of Sugar May Be More Toxic Than Sugar Itself
https://www.self.com/story/why-fear-of-sugar-addiction-may-be-more-toxic-than-sugar-is

7 Tips for Getting a Person with an Eating Disorder to Eat with Eva Musby
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10/30/16 • 50 min
In this podcast you will hear my conversation with Eva Musby. We talk about her experience with family-based therapy (or family-based treatment) as a mother. We also go into the key points that Eva addresses in her book and give you Getting a Person with an Eating Disorder to Eat:
- Understand the fear mechanism that is active when a person has an eating disorder. Logic and lectures will not work in this place, and Eva explains what you can use therefore.
- Compassion. Understanding how the sufferer is feeling will help you not blame them for their actions and will help you push through with family-based treatment (FBT).
- Creating an impression of utter confidence. This helps the sufferer trust that you as the parent know what you are doing and will reduce the panic and insecurity the sufferer feels. Watch: Stuck not Eating on You Tube
- Meal supporters must be on the same page. This is a key predictor of recovery — down to all decisions, not just the broad strokes.
- Become a great body language reader!
- Have a thick skin! Understand with compassion that the abuse the sufferer is dishing out is not personal.
- Self care and compassion for the caregiver. FBT is relentless! You have to be on your A game!
Eva Musby is a pen name. Eva’s otherwise healthy daughter spiralled into anorexia. Eleven months in hospital restored her health, but once she was home, Eva and her family learned a lot and made fast progress.
Eva now takes the principles that she learned in helping her daughter to recover and uses them to help other parents. She has a book on helping a child recover from an eating disorder which is a fantastic resource for any parent.
Where to find more information:
Links: www.evamusby.co.uk and https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVgyQbyKQSBHUbIDLlc7t3v7bN0lmLcve www.facebook.com/EvaMusby.Individual and www.facebook.com/EvaMusby and twitter is @evamusby Podcast on fear and fight or flight reaction in eating disorders
Veganism and Eating Disorders: A chat with an anthropologist
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09/04/16 • 29 min
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!
Linkshttp://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
Why I Stopped Being Vegetarian
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
Why vegetarianism will not save the world
What if the whole world went vegan?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/foodanddrinknews/8012205/Eat-meat-and-save-the-planet-says-eco-warrior-and-former-vegetarian.html
Solutions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permaculture https://permacultureprinciples.com/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquaponics http://sift.ncat.org/small_scale.php http://sustainablefoodtrust.org/articles/small-scale-farming/ http://sustainableagriculture.net/publications/grassrootsguid...
Atypical Anorexia
The Eating Disorder Recovery Podcast
07/11/19 • 21 min
In this podcast, Tabitha answers the question "What are your thoughts on the term Atypical Anorexia?"

Treatment Stories: Being shamed for wanting more food
The Eating Disorder Recovery Podcast
12/12/18 • 18 min
In this podcast you will hear an audio recording of an account of a treatment facility from a person in recovery.

Recovery stories: Cannabis and eating disorder recovery
The Eating Disorder Recovery Podcast
07/24/18 • 33 min
In this week's podcast, Tabitha talks Sophia — a person currrently in recovery — about medical use of cannabis in recovery from anorexia.

Dr Laura Hill: Using the Neurobiology of Eating Disorders to Inform Treatment
The Eating Disorder Recovery Podcast
12/18/16 • 56 min
In this podcast, Tabitha Farrar talk to Dr Laura Hill about the neurobiology of eating disorders such as Anorexia Nervosa. We also talk about the new treatment approach that Dr Hill is developing. In this podcast we discuss:
- The history of research and understanding about eating disorders
- The importance of involving the family in all aspects of treatment and educating support persons.
- How understanding how eating disorders affect areas of the brain can explain the behaviors demonstrated by patients
- The developments in treatment models as informed by neurobiology and patient studies
- Dr Laura Hill’s contributions to the field of the neurobiology behind eating disorders
- Treatment gaps and technologies to fill them
- Eating disorders as brain-based illnesses
- Developing compassion and understanding and applications for treatment
Dr. Laura Hill is the President & CEO of The Center for Balanced Living, a free standing not-for-profit organization that specializes in the education, treatment and research of eating disorders. Dr Hill is the recipient of Muskingum University Distinguished Service Award in 2014, the National Eating Disorders Association 2011 Lori Irving Award for Excellence in Eating Disorders Prevention and Awareness and was a TEDx Columbus speaker in 2012. She is an original founder of the Academy for Eating Disorders in 1993 and was Director of what is now known as The National Eating Disorder Association from 1990 to 1994.
She is the lead author of the Family Eating Disorder Manual, 2012; and has conducted research and spoken internationally over the last 35 years. She is a recipient of the national Feeding Hope award by NEDA, in collaboration with UCSD Eating Disorder and Research.
Find out more about Dr Laura Hill here: http://www.centerforbalancedliving.org/laura-hill/
Link to the recent study that we discussed:
http://jeatdisord.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40337-016-0119-x
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