Status of Women committee  Yes.

Status of Women committee  I found all kinds of information that was very outdated. I found things on eating disorders awareness. As I said before, and I'm speaking as a parent, on the other side, I was very frustrated, because I saw the stuff on body image, and I saw that show Dying to be Thin, and I thou

Status of Women committee  Yes. I think it's gotten better in four years, but our primary care providers need a lot more education, continuing education. Our medical students, residents, they're not trained. All they hear about is the obesity epidemic. I did prepare a brief. I've got growth charts in there

Status of Women committee  This type of treatment is where you want the parents in charge, you want to empower the parents, that's what it is.

Status of Women committee  Sure, the Maudsley method. Maudsley is a hospital in London and this is where it started. The clinician saw that people with eating disorders would go home and relapse. They would be feeding them in the clinic, the hospital, and then they would relapse when they got home. So the

Status of Women committee  Well, when I first went to the doctor he didn't know what to do. He wasn't aware of the family-based treatment that was offered in our city, and I couldn't just sit there and watch her die. I found the information online, and I realized that this happens all over the world and fa

Status of Women committee  We don't know what the causes are. I think we can't have primary prevention until we know. There's genetic vulnerability, the environment, a whole host of things that interact and from all my reading we don't know exactly what causes them. I know research is going on in other cou

Status of Women committee  Good afternoon. Thank you for giving me the opportunity to speak today. First, I want to acknowledge that families with sons get eating disorders as well. We must not forget our sons. I feel if we make this just about girls and women, we are only perpetuating the stigma and myt