Background: This advanced course covers the nutritional treatment of the eating disorders and designed to educate those who have chosen eating disorders as their profession. Challenging topics will be addressed which include treating the borderline patient, managing refeeding syndrome and resolving issues such as food addictions, compulsive exercise, and food allergies.
Objectives: • Defend why the abstinent model for addiction might not be in the best interest in the treatment of those struggling with BED. • Discuss how to handle challenging cases such as orthorexia, gluten sensitivity, pregorexia, compulsive exercising • State four reasons why diabulimics might skip taking their insulin as prescribed
- Refeeding Syndrome
- Identification and monitoring
- Challenging the current guidelines
- Protocol
- Night Eating Syndrome
- Definition, diagnosis and challenges
- Dietitians role and individual therapy
- Food Addiction
- Review of advantages and disadvantages of abstinence
- Dietary tools to combat cravings as an alternative to abstinence
- Gluten Sensitivity
- Exposing the controversy
- When is a gluten free diet appropriate
- Orthorexia
- Definition and description
- Nutritional recommendations for recovery
- Pregorexia
- The challenges to being pregnant while struggling with an eating disorder
- The negative effect of an unhealthy eating practices on the unborn child
- Diabulimia
- Complications of manipulating insulin control one’s weight for the diabetic with an eating disorder
- Specialized treatment of diabetics with an eating disorder
- Drunkorexia
- Description and consequences
- Nutritional intervention
- Bariatric Surgery
- Exposing the various reasons for failing bariatric surgery
- Nutritional interventions as an alternative to gastric revision
- Compulsive Exercising
- Assessing compulsive exercise
- Psychoeducation on the harm of compulsive exercising
- Modification of safe activity participation
- Borderline Personality Disorder
- Outline of characteristics of a “borderline”
- Treatment skills for handling a borderline without disrupting the group milieu
- ARFID
- Recognizing when Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder is significant
- Nutritional needs and strategies
Ralph Carson, LD, RD, PhD is a nutritionist and exercise physiologist with over 40 years of experience currently Vice President of Science and Innovation for the Eating Recovery Center’s CORE Program for binge eating disorders in Denver, CO and a consultant for Pine Grove Behavioral Health and Addiction Center in Hattiesburg, MS. He is an active member on the board of the International Association of Eating Disorder Professionals (iaedp) and author of The Brain Fix: What’s the Matter with Your Gray Matter, over 20 scientific published articles and several text book chapters.
