Parenting Teen Eating Disorder

Top experts James Lock and Daniel Le Grange explain what you need to know about eating disorders, which treatments work, and why it is absolutely essential to play an active role in your teen's recovery - even though parents have often been told to take a back seat. Learn how to monitor your teen's eating and exercise, manage mealtimes, end weight-related power struggles, and partner successfully with health-care providers.

Eating disorders are serious physical and emotional problems that can have life-threatening consequences for both females and males. Eating disorders include extreme attitudes, emotions, and behaviors surrounding food issues and weight. An eating disorder is no joke and must not be kept on the down low.

Our culture today seems to encourage an obsession with our appearance and low body weight, and a lot of that is thanks to the media. Eating disorders are, quite frankly, problems with the way a person eats. They can harm a person’s emotions, health, and even relationships. There are four main types of eating disorders in children and teens, including anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge eating disorder, and avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID). Eating disorders often go overlooked in children and teens, but if left untreated, they can end up being deadly.

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