Body of Evidence

I am really looking forward to your posts. Learned a lot of new and interesting facts in this one.

Thank you Carrie for presenting evidence based information that will help families and sufferers! Looking forward to reading more.

As a longtime reader of your blog, I am very happy to see that your excellent thinking, clear writing and up-to-date information will be featured here as well. May you reach many people with your valuable messages!

Excellent first offering! After reading your blog (and several others) for many months now, I have also embraced the idea that nutrition comes first.
(also love that your tags include behavioural neuroscience along with whack-a-mole!)

Congrats on getting your blog on Psychology Today Carrie! I am so thrilled to see your voice of reason sharing the science here. It continues to amaze me that the old paradigm of blaming "intrusive mothers" holds a firm grip on many who work in the field. Just after the NEDA conference last fall (2010) I talked with an older psychologist from NYC who flat out said to me (after a morning of learning about neuroscience and eating disorders from top scientists in the field), "If it weren't for the pathological parents, we wouldn't have eating disorders." Being that I spend my days coaching the parents of kids with eating disorders you can imagine how well this went over with me.

Needless to say, there is still a long way to go in dispelling those old beliefs and I am so grateful you are writing about the science in a way that all can understand. Thanks Carrie!
Becky Henry

This is a much-needed blog on Psychology Today! I am looking forward to your posts. As a therapist, I integrate a biological model as well as a feminist-psychodynamic one - so that my clients begin to eat (with ALOT of support from a great RD) and re-nourish themselves AND talk AND begin to develop the ability to notice their environment for its impact on their feelings about themselves (this includes peers, family and media/visual/consumer environment). I don't think it has to be either/or - - lots of help with awareness, patience, self-compassion and acknowledgment of ambivalence regarding change important too.
Thanks so much!

First off I want to congradulate you on your new blog! I think it is off to a wonderful start. I am a graduate student at Eastern Kentucky University’s Community Nutrition Program. I have been following your blog since the beginning of the semester. When I found out you were starting this blog I got very excited. I really enjoy your blog and I have to say I am a fan. I love your story and it is very inspirational. As a project this semester I started a blog. I decided that I wanted my blog to about eating disorders and the passing of bill H.R. 36 Eating Disorders Awareness, Prevention, and Education Act of 2011. This bill amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to authorize the use of innovative assistance funds for programs to: (1) improve identification of students with eating disorders; (2) increase awareness of such disorders among parents and students; and (3) train educators with respect to effective eating disorder prevention and assistance methods. I chose this topic because my sister suffered with an eating disorder and I feel as though no one wants to talk about eating disorders. I love your blog and I think that this blog is going to be very helpful in eating disorder education. Thank you for all you that you do in the fight against eating disorders!

Wonderful to see you here Carrie. You have given me great insight into my daughters illness and I look forward to reading more from you.

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