LATEST DIET CRAZE: Starve one day, then pig out the next!
 Gorging yourself on as many burgers, chips and cakes as you like one day then eating fewer calories than you find in a cheese sandwich the next might sound like a worrying eating disorder.

But this regime of chomping away to your heart's content one day, and virtually starving yourself the next is the latest diet craze. It's known as 'intermittent fasting' or 'alternate-day dieting',and devotees insist the pounds just drop off.

The diet soared in popularity after featuring in a BBC2 Horizon documentary a few weeks ago by health journalist Dr Michael Mosley. After a month eating normally five days a week and eating just 600 calories the other two days - known as the 5/2 diet - Mosley lost nearly a stone, reduced his body fat by about 25 per cent and improved his blood sugar and cholesterol levels. Read More

 STUDY:  Trouble Seeing Emotions Tied to Eating

Women with abnormal eating behaviors, such as binging or extreme fear of gaining weight, misinterpreted facial expressions in others, especially anger and fear, compared with a control group, researchers report in the journal Appetite. Women with abnormal eating behaviors mistook fear, bottom right, for anger, left, and sadness, top right, in a series of images of emotions, including happiness, top left.

Abnormal eating is associated with poor social skills and an impaired ability to recognize facial emotions. This study is the first to identify a pattern in recognition errors, researchers said.

The subjects were 80 women in their 20s from the U.K., 40 with high scores on an eating disorder inventory that assessed desire for thinness, bulimia and body dissatisfaction, and 40 with low EDI scores. Some high EDI subjects were recruited from a self-help group for people with concerns about their eating patterns, though none had received treatment at the time of the study.   Read More  Read the Abstract

Study: Effect of Maternal Eating Disorder on Perinatal Outcome Minimal

Pregnant women with current or past eating disorders have few adverse perinatal outcomes, according to a study published online Aug. 20 in BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology.

Nadia Micali, M.D., Ph.D., from the University College London Institute of Child Health, and colleagues examined adverse perinatal outcomes and gestational weight gain trajectories in women with lifetime eating disorders. Women with singleton births were grouped based on lifetime (current or past) exposure: lifetime anorexia nervosa (AN; 129 women); lifetime bulimia nervosa (BN; 209 women); lifetime AN + BN (100 women); other lifetime psychiatric disorders (1,002 women); and unexposed women (3,816 women).Read More 

iaedp Symposium 2013

What's New Under the Sun?

Innovative Approaches to Treatment

March 21-24, 2013

The Westin Lake Las Vegas Resort and Spa

Henderson, Nevada

It's not just a conference--It's an experience!  Great venue, incredible opportunities to network with other professionals, and an outstanding program!

You deserve to be recognized and validated as a highly experienced clinician and iaedp is committed to helping our members! The Board of Directors and Awards Committee created the Fellow of iaedp (F.iaedp), a new category of elevated membership status available to highly committed and accomplished professionals.

(Please note some changes in requirements from those previous published.)

For consideration for elevated membership status as a Fellow of iaedp, candidates' collective contributions over time will be evaluated. Guidelines identify but are not exclusive to iaedp members of 7 continuous years or more who have been in practice for a minimum of 12 years, are preferably Certified Eating Disorder Specialists and have demonstrated accomplishment and participation in the field through activities such as teaching, presentations, training, research, writing and innovative community projects. Each honoree will receive a special certificate of recognition and Fellow Members may include "F. iaedp" with his or her credentials. Award nominations and Fellow of iaedp applications are encouraged from members through forms provided online.

There is a $50 application fee, a $200 one time fee upon approval, and a $25 annual records maintenance fee. Each recipient must maintain an iaedp membership along with their fellow status. A beautiful framed and engraved certificate will be awarded during the induction year and a printed certificate will be provided each successive year.

Wonder if you qualify? Take this quiz!

 Apply online here!

iaedp membership has its benefits! Are you taking advantage of them?

iaedp Creates the Christine Hartline Symposium Scholarship

Each year the iaedp Board of Directors will select someone who will be able to attend the conference on a scholarship in Christine's name.  For the past few years iaedp has offered financial aid scholarships to qualified first time attendees or iaedp members who need help with fees during a time of financial hardship.  These recipients receive a greatly reduced conference registration fee.  The new Christine Hartline Symposium Scholarship will be awarded to cover all registration fees for one qualified recipient. You may donate here.  

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Effective August 1, 2012, iaedp's Online Courses are eligible for continuing education credits.  Each course offers the opportunity to earn 10 ce's from NBCC upon the successful completion of the course.  The 4 courses are:  

• Course 1 - Introduction to Eating Disorders
• Course 2 - Treatment Modalities for Eating Disorders
• Course 3 - Nutritional Aspects of Eating Disorders
• Course 4 - Medical Aspects of Eating Disorders

Symposium 2013 EXHIBITOR'S GUIDE is hot off the press! Download Guide Here 

2013 IMAGINE ME BEYOND WHAT YOU SEE Body Image Mannequin Contest Underway! 

Start working on your entries and join us for the award presentation at our Thursday Night Gala! Download Imagine Me Brochure

SEEKING RAPID ASSESSMENT INSTRUMENTS (RAI) for iaedp initiative  with Dr. John Levitt   

Do you have an RAI (assessment tool) that you have developed and would like to have included in our publication?   You will be listed as a contributor to the project on all materials. Email us!  iaedp.blanche@gmail.com