Discussing obesity and eating disorders with patients and families

Colleen Sloan, PA-C, RDN, shares some practical tips for providers and caregivers to help keep children hydrated during the summer.

The final episode in our podcast series on atypical anorexia discusses fat bias in health care and its impact on diagnosis and when pushback against diagnosis happens.

Colleen Sloan, PA-C, RDN, shares the importance of breakfast and the reasoning to why kids skip this essential meal.

Dr. Erin Harrop discusses the necessity of understanding that eating disorders do not all look the same in every patient and how a multidisciplinary approach could be an effective way to diagnose and manage anorexia nervosa that is atypical.

"We are getting away from biopsies to diagnose CD, which makes diagnosis even easier, said Jon Matthew Farber, MD.

While these concerns are often rooted in misinformation, they offer an opportunity to guide families back to the evidence.