Today’s announcement of a partnership between F.E.A.S.T. and Project Heal marks a special moment in our mission to support families facing eating disorders. Our partnership…
As announced earlier this month, F.E.A.S.T’s Board of Directors published a Position Statement addressing the controversial Kurbo dieting app for children. Many families in the…
Eating disorder advocates, clinicians, researchers: does it concern you that so much of the attention in the media and research and the public is all…
This week the F.E.A.S.T. community is welcoming a new member to our Advisory Panel: James Lock MD, PhD. Dr. Lock is well-known to the parent…
Not easily shocked As wrong and dangerous as I believe some attitudes and some treatments are when it comes to eating disorders, I’ve only once…
Last week, our Executive Director, Laura Collins Lyster-Mensh, attended a meeting with the Eating Disorders Leadership Summit. Leaders of the AED, EDC, Alliance for Eating…
It is hard to find money and schedule time away for conferences, no matter how interesting and relevant, so the upcoming Body Peace Virtual Eating…
POSITION STATEMENT August 29, 2019 The announcement of a new smartphone app for children 8-17 from Weight Watchers, called Kurbo, has been met with horror…
I was on vacation — my first real vacation in many years — when the news broke that Weight Watchers was rolling out a weight…
I am a keen reader of headlines about eating disorders. The headlines are often so badly off the mark, even of the content of the…