By Lucy Wetherall What do ARFID and Autism have in common? Long before a connection between Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID) and Autism Spectrum…
If you would like to learn more about ARFID, please join our webinar this Wednesday, August 4, at 2:00 EDT on the topic of “ARFID…
By Liz McLean, F.E.A.S.T. Volunteer This is what I’ve learned, not what “studies show” or experts say. Hopefully it helps. Trust your gut Mom, ARFID…
By Liz McLean, F.E.A.S.T. Volunteer “The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who…
By Liz McLean, F.E.A.S.T. Parent and Volunteer Sometimes, only sometimes, I wish that I were Beyonce, because then my dressing room would be stocked with…
By: Megan C. Kuhnle, B.A., and Jennifer J. Thomas, Ph.D. Eating Disorders Clinical and Research Program, Massachusetts General Hospital Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School…
April 14, 2020 The undersigned organizations join together to respond to a harmful idea being spread in the media about the dangerous mental illness, Avoidant/Restrictive…
Please join the F.E.A.S.T. community in standing up against bullying children with eating disorders and their parents! Associated Press: Retract “Picky Eating” article ridiculing children…
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…
NEWS FROM THE EATING DISORDER WORLD: “as children grow older, physicians are beginning to notice a disturbing pattern—avoidant or restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID).” CLICK…