Extreme Picky Eating Linked to Mental Health Problems

A parent’s concern about their young child’s picky eating is one of the most common presenting complaints to primary care clinicians.  Generally, if a child is growing and otherwise healthy, the most common response is reassurance and some helpful strategies for how to help kids slowly expand their food repertoire.  This strategy usually works well, […]

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Eating Disorder Promoting Websites and Social Media: A 2015 Update

In the early 2000s, a great deal of concern was raised about so called pro-ana or pro-mia websites that to varying degrees seemed to endorse and even promote eating disorders such as anorexia and bulimia.  The alarm was loud enough to trigger an episode of the Oprah Winfrey Show in October 2001 on the subject. […]

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