Eating Disorder Treatments: Calling for a Reboot

Eating Disorder Treatments: Calling for a Reboot

By Jana Keith-Jennings, LMSW The majority of eating disorder treatments and research has been focused primarily on thin, straight, white, middle- or upper-class, able-bodied women with anorexia nervosa. While this focus has generated important findings, it has failed...
Eating Disorders Cast a Wide Net

Eating Disorders Cast a Wide Net

By Jana Keith-Jennings, LMSW In an October 18, 2022 article titled “You Don’t Look Anorexic”, in the New York Times, it was noted that studies show as many as 4.9 percent of the female population, 1.2 percent of the male population, and as much as 7.5 percent of the...