How to Nourish Your Child Through an Eating Disorder

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Parents of kids who are struggling with an eating disorder are often at a loss - how do I talk to my child about their disorder? How do I monitor their food intake? What should I feed them and how do I know that they're getting the nutrients they need? Now, registered dietitians Wendy Sterling and Casey Crosbie offer a groundbreaking approach that gives parents control of their child's health and enables them to put their kid on a path toward nutritional rehabilitation. Unlike other methods that rely on the cumbersome use of exchanges, calorie counting, measuring, and food labels, this approach is simple and easy to implement using just one tool - a plate! Starting with the basics, HOW TO NOURISH YOUR CHILD THROUGH AN EATING DISORDER covers everything parents need to know about ED in kids - it walks readers through the warning signs of ED and the potential health risks involved, as well as how to productively talk about weight changes and set goals for treatment. Parents are taught how to incorporate structure and consistency at mealtime, to supervise meals, and to eat as a family again in order to support their child's recovery.

Wendy Sterling, MS, RD, CSSD, specialises in sports nutrition, eating disorders, and weight management. She has worked as a nutritionist for The Healthy Teen Project as well as Eating Disorders Center at Cohen Children's Medical Center of New York. She has consulted for the Golden State Warriors, New York Jets, and NY Islanders. Casey Crosbie, RD, CSSD, is certified in Childhood and Adolescent Weight Management by the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. She is currently the program director and lead dietitian at The Healthy Teen Project in Los Altos, CA.

"[With] simple and clear yet science-backed recommendations, and professional yet compassionate tone . . . I'd recommend this book to any RD who works with young ED clients participating in FBT."--Today's Dietitian "A key tenet of family-based treatment (FBT) for adolescent anorexia nervosa (AN) is to empower parents so that they (the parents) can bring about weight restoration for their teen. This process is a delicate one--the clinician is to support the parents' efforts without telling them what to do, yet steering them in the right direction. Parents and providers can get tripped up in this task as weight restoration seldom follows a straight upward trajectory. A solid under-standing of the nutritional requirements for recovery in AN is key to getting this task done. That said, the foundation model of FBT does not specify how best to integrate nutritional expertise in this treatment. This book offers a terrific start to this process--it will inform parents rather than prescribe to parents. Crosbie and Sterling take great care to use their nutritional expertise to complement the key FBT tenets. As a result, How to Nourish Your Child Through an Eating Disorder will be a helpful tool not only to parents, but also to the many clinicians who are tasked with supporting parents in their struggle to help their child overcome an eating disorder."--Daniel Le Grange, PhD, Benioff UCSF Professor in Children's Health and Eating Disorders director, Department of Psychiatry and UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences, University of California, San Francisco, and emeritus professor of psychiatry and behavioral neuroscience, the University of Chicago "For the parents of patients with eating disorders, this book, written by two prominent nutritionists, provides a comprehensive understanding of the illness and a practical approach to the refeeding process. Overall, an excellent summary of what parents need to know."--Martin Fisher, MD, chief, Division of Adolescent Medicine, Cohen Children's Medical Center, Northwell Health "I highly recommend this book to any parent whose child has an eating disorder! How To Nourish Your Child Through an Eating Disorder provides concrete tools--based in science--in a friendly, compassionate, and easy-to-understand way.--Jenni Schaefer, bestselling author of Life Without Ed; Goodbye Ed, Hello Me; and Almost Anorexic "Parents: This book is your play-by-play for exactly how you can help your child heal their mind and body with food!"--Rebecca Scritchfield, RDN, EP-C, author of Body Kindness "Casey Crosbie and Wendy Sterling's practical book is an innovative and user-friendly resource on how to nourish a child with an eating disorder back to health. Crosbie and Sterling provide an important adjunctive approach to FBT, the first-line outpatient treatment for eating disorders. This excellent resource offers helpful strategies to empower parents and caregivers to play an active role in their adolescent's recovery."--Debra K. Katzman, MD, FRCPC, Professor of Pediatrics, The Hospital for Sick Children and University of Toronto and Director, Health Science Research, MD Program University of Toronto "Family-based treatment is extremely effective, yet difficult. How to Nourish Your Child Through an Eating Disorder provides just the help parents need to ensure their child will recover at home."--Marcia Herrin, EdD, MPH, RDN, FAED, author of the Parent's Guide to Eating Disorders and Nutrition Counseling in the Treatment of Eating Disorders "Offering necessary support to families and caregivers facing an eating disorder, this book will be