Monthly Insights
Do we need to eat cleaner? Clearing up the confusion (September 2025)
By Carrie Dennett, MPH, RDN Clean eating has been a full-fledged trend for almost 20 years, emerging in the women’s bodybuilding world before expanding into nutrition and wellness spaces, despite the lack of an official “clean eating” definition or diet. One person might define clean eating as trying to eat more nutrient-dense “whole” foods while […]
Working Through Poor Body Image (July 2022)
Body image is a topic that is so relevant in today’s world. People who are chronically dieting struggle with body image, and so do those who are dealing with an eating disorder. In spite of that, many people don’t really think about body image until […]
What is Atypical Anorexia Nervosa? (June 2022)
Several times a week, a client shares with me that they have been restricting their food and eating a very low-calorie diet that has led to significant weight loss—along with episodes of dizziness and nausea and difficulty engaging with other people. Unfortunately, when the client […]
BRADYCARDIA: HOW SEVERE IS TOO SEVERE? UNDERSTANDING BRADYCARDIA IN EATING DISORDERS (May 2022)
By Philip S. Mehler, MD, FACP, FAED, CEDS Permission has been given by Dr. Philip Mehler and ACUTE Center for Eating disorder and Severe Malnutrition. I was honored when Dr. Mehler and the team from ACUTE agreed to let me repost this article as bradycardia […]
Veganism in Eating Disorder Recovery (April 2022)
I often hear—from clients themselves, or from their loved ones—that a client became vegan during the onset of their eating disorder. It’s not surprising that some people who are vegan develop eating disorders, similar to how people often cut out various foods and food groups […]