Eating Disorders and Recovery:

Eating disorders have the highest mortality rate of any emotional disorder. Five to 10 percent of those with anorexia nervosa will die within 10 years. For the more than seven million women and one million men suffering from bulimia, the odds of dying are even greater.

Working with a psychotherapist and a nutrition therapist specially trained to deal with eating disorders can help an individual suffering from an eating disorder make the changes necessary to begin recovery.

For Individuals with Eating Disorders:

• The nutritional assessment
  • To evaluate available laboratory, anthropometric, medial and physical data
  • To assess diet and weight history and current eating patterns
    
    
• The development of an individualized food plan
  • To raise basal metabolic rate, meet nutrient needs and stabilize and then achieve health weight
    
• One-on-one counseling and treatment
  
• Provide education to:
  
  • replace false beliefs about nutrition, food, weight, exercise and health
  • understand the physical effects of the eating disorder
  • differentiate fluid shifts from muscle and fat weight shifts
    
• Provide guidance and caring assistance as the individual makes changes in eating behavior to:
  
• help increase the variety of foods eaten
• face food fears
• slowly achieve a healthy weight
• learn to eat with others again

The Food-Body Connection Program:

Using the successful practices from The Food-Body Connection Program, individuals and groups can develop a lifestyle that enhances physical health and well being through a combination of nurturing self-care, natural healthy eating and joyful movement.
The program focus on

• eating awareness
• body image
• self-acceptance
• body appreciation through movement
• relaxation techniques
• lifestyle changes
• nutritional assessments
• nutrition information to separate fad from fat
• healthy non-dieting weight management in a supportive environment

Participants will: Explore sensory awareness, including the sense of taste. Discover or rediscover the meaning of natural healthy eating. Examine the relationship between feelings about the body and how the body is treated. Balance fuel mixtures to fine-tune physical and mental well being. Rather than stuffing feelings with food, learn new ways of meeting true needs. Regain the pleasure of enjoying food. Determine their healthiest weights. Discover other sources of pleasure besides food.

Eating Disorder Prevention Program:

These counseling sessions help parents learn more about how to prevent eating disorders in their children. Parents will understand what these disorders are, how they develop-and not just how the disorders can be prevented-but what specific preventive steps a parent can take.

Healthy Families, Healthy Children and Healthy Foods:

Parents can give their children ample helpings to one of the great pleasures of life by fostering the enjoyment of delicious, healthy food at a happy, wholesome family table.

Nutrition counseling can help all family members-parents and children-develop positive eating habits and healthy relationships with food. Types of concerns addressed include: how parents can create the best environment for sound nutrition; the parent’s role in developing good eating habits; how to deal with the child who has a body type that doesn’t fit the societal standard; helping children reach their best weights for nutrition and health; what normal eating is; how much a child should eat; how to help a child eat the right foods; and how to distinguish eating problems from true eating disorders.

Sports Nutrition:

Because what you eat and when you eat affects sports performance, individual sports enthusiast, personal trainers and health and fitness centers will want to include a sound sport nutrition plan as part of every overall fitness program.

In addition to developing a sports nutrition plan,
you’ll learn more about:

• what sports require special nutrients
• the best muscle fuel
• fluid needs
• pre-event meals, and recovery foods