Category: Eating Disorders

Can Yoga Help Eating Disorder Treatment?

February 20, 2017 Avalon Malibu Addiction Healthy Living Eating Disorders

Clinical style check-in’s at the beginning and end of a yoga session helps the teacher understand where each client is in their day as well as their recovery. Eating disorders are sensitive, dealing with the tedious challenge of embracing imperfections.… Read More ›

6 Things You Shouldn’t Say To Someone Recovering From An Eating Disorder

February 6, 2017 Avalon Malibu Mental Health Recovery Eating Disorders Food and Nutrition

Eating disorders can be life threatening and cause ongoing health complications without recovery. Recovering from an eating disorder is tedious because it involves something that every human needs to survive- food. Most of the world struggles with insecurities about food… Read More ›

What is the Most Common Eating Disorder?

January 20, 2017 Avalon Malibu Food and Nutrition Eating Disorders Mental Health Addiction

Eating disorders are finally being given the attention they deserve in the media for both men and women. Once reserved for the deathly ill, eating disorder treatment has broadened its horizon. Most treatment centers offer treatment services for eating disorders… Read More ›

Confronting Negative Body Image Talk

January 13, 2017 Avalon Malibu Mental Health Healthy Living Eating Disorders

Problematically, causal negative talk about body image during normal conversation doesn’t stay at the conversation. Instead, it follows us and impacts us on a deep level. According to Refinery29, “these comments don’t just affect the person making the complaint —… Read More ›

Starting 2017 In Eating Disorder Recovery

January 13, 2017 Avalon Malibu Eating Disorders Food and Nutrition Holidays

New Year’s resolutions can set high expectations which early on lead to shattering disappointments. This is no more true than when it comes to weight loss. January marks six months before “bikini season” and is the weight loss industry’s favorite… Read More ›

Is Flexitarianism A Real Thing?

January 11, 2017 Avalon Malibu Healthy Living Eating Disorders Food and Nutrition

2016 was the rise of clean eating and widespread veganism. Out of the dust of limiting a diet to only healthy super foods came Orthorexia, a new eating disorder that focuses on an obsessive need to eat only healthy foods.… Read More ›

Tips For The Holidays When Recovering From An Eating Disorder

December 23, 2016 Avalon Malibu Mental Health Healthy Living Recovery Eating Disorders Food and Nutrition Holidays

Holidays tend to involve a lot of eating. For those in recovery from an eating disorder, the holidays can be especially difficult. Here are some tips and suggestions to make the holiday season manageable while recovering from an eating disorder.… Read More ›

Facts About Binge Eating Disorder

November 7, 2016 Avalon Malibu Eating Disorders Food and Nutrition

Men and Women Are Affected By Binge Eating Disorder Men and women receive different assignments of eating disorder based on gender stereotypes. Eating disorders can and do affect millions of both men and women. Anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa are… Read More ›

Eating Disorders: What You Know May Save a Life

May 16, 2016 Avalon Malibu Eating Disorders Food and Nutrition

Those suffering from mental illness are often stigmatized, and people with eating disorders have endured particularly harsh public shaming and humiliation. As a result, many are reluctant to admit to these syndromes and struggle in silence until the problems become… Read More ›

Binge Eating Disorder or Bulimia?

April 11, 2015 Avalon Malibu Food and Nutrition Eating Disorders

Binge eating disorder and bulimia are two of the three eating disorders recognized by the American Psychiatric Association. (1) On the surface, these two disorders may not seem different from each other. But there are significant differences in the warning signs… Read More ›