Face food issues before it’s too late
November 7th, 2005From the Boston Globe:
For a parent whose child is ultimately diagnosed with an eating disorder, there is typically an uh-oh moment of realization: ‘’My child is way too fat/thin. What’s going on here?” Too often, that moment comes too late. The child’s relationship with food is already an obsession. Intervention is painful and difficult, and recovery isn’t a sure thing.
Here’s the good news: Eating disorders almost always start with disordered eating, but disordered eating does not automatically lead to an eating disorder. ‘’This is not a runaway process,” says psychologist Michael Strober, director of the Eating Disorder Program at UCLA. and author of ‘’just a little too thin” (DaCapo).
