Advertise With UsCurrent Issue: September/October • Vol. 30 / No. 5
More Genetic Evidence Found in Anorexia Nervosa
Men with Eating Disorders: Data Are Scarce
Selling Health and Happiness on Instagram
African-American Women and Eating Disorders: Depression, and the Strong Black Woman Archetype
By Carolyn Coker Ross, MD, MPH, CEDS While eating disorders have long been considered a “white woman’s problem,” recent findings show that eating disorders are becoming a major health issue for black…
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Managing Low Bone Mineral Density in Adolescents with Eating Disorders: A Review of Pathophysiology, Diagnostic Modalities, and Treatment
Some Highlights of ICED 2019: A Focus on Innovations in Eating Disorders Care
Level of Care Considerations for Severe and Extreme Eating Disorders
Needed: More Vitamin ‘N’
From Across the Desk: Progress is what happens when impossibility yields to necessity. - Arnold H. Glasow
This month, our lead article, “African-American Women and Eating Disorders: Depression, and the Strong Black Woman Archetype,” by Carolyn Coker Ross, MD, MPH, CEDS, addresses an often-overlooked segment of the eating disorders population, African-American women. Other articles feature studies of eating disorders among men, another often-overlooked group, and exciting genetic advances being made to better define anorexia nervosa.
Such progress is truly welcome and long overdue, and kudos must go to the individuals and global groups alike, who so diligently work to improve our understanding of the ever-challenging world of eating disorders.
— MKS