Eating disorder advocates like myself walk a careful line with the media: yearning for good coverage of the issue but wary of being used for sensationalist and harmful "entertainment."

Tracey Gold's new series, Starving Secrets on Lifetime, doesn't just walk that line; it actively exploits it. In...

Running an organization called F.E.A.S.T. should make Thanksgiving a pleasant theme, but the third Thursday in November is no holiday for eating disorders, or the families supporting a loved one through treatment.

Imagine you or a loved one has an illness where treatment is more painful and more...

I don't want you to buy Maggie Goes On A Diet. I shouldn't even be telling you about the book, because it appalls me to think of it getting in the hands of a parent or -- sigh -- a child. This as-yet unpublished, self-published book would go...

If you want to change the world, study those who have done it before you.

Ruth Sullivan, a pioneer parent activist in the autism world, is one of my models for changing the eating disorder world. I'm proud to announce that she will be joining F.E.A.S.T....

Why bring up Isabelle Caro? Because you searched for her on Google, or you recognized her name and clicked. If you are the parent of a person with anorexia, I wanted you to find me.

In the storm of misconceptions and blaming around that news story, I'm worried...

Let's say there was a terrible illness for which there was an effective medicine but because it has to be delivered consistently over a long period of time, it often fails. Availability of the medicine isn't the problem, nor is the technology too complex for the average person, but as...

I'm baffled by the resistance to new science in eating disorders. This month a major study came out that offers hope and immediate practical use for millions of families but is the response joy and relief? Not enough. Evidence-based treatment like the Family-Based Maudsley Approach to eating disorder...

Imagine a deadly, but treatable, illness where "experts" refused to use their own science. Imagine if many oncologists, for example, simply didn't offer the medicines and interventions of their field. If dentists continued to use the tools used in the 1950s because that is the way they were trained?

In the eating disorders world, putting any child on a diet is not only unacceptable but appalling.

In the eating disorders world, a father referring to his child as "chubby" and commenting on her eating habits is not only frowned upon it is reviled.

In the eating disorder world a...

Until recently, I admired the autism parent community from afar. Like the parents who awakened and changed the schizophrenia treatment world, parents of autistic children have moved both treatment and public opinion about the disorder almost 180 degrees from where it had been. They did it fairly quickly, too: bringing...

I hear the term "Food Police" a lot: mostly as a condescending slur on parents.

It came up on the comments for my last post, as it often does when I give speeches or people review my book. People are incredulous that I would suggest that parents can feed their...

I was told in 2002 to stop feeding my child. She was anorexic and her young body was failing, but I was told it wasn't my business and it wasn't about food.

They were wrong. They're still wrong. And they're still saying it.

But...