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Why Family Meals Matter
January 15, 2008 in Adolescent Eating Behaviors, American Journal of Psychiatry, anorexia, Anorexia Nervosa, Biostatistics, Community Health Education, Disordered Eating Behaviors, Division of Epidemiology, Dr Dianne Neumark-Sztainer, Eating Disorder Advocacy, Eating Disorder News, Eating Disorders, Eating Patterns and Weight Related Issues, ED advocacy, Empowered Families, Evidence Based Treatment for Eating Disorders, Family Based Therapy, Family Meals, Family supported ED treatment, Health, Health & Wellbeing, Improvement of Psychological and Behavioral Treatments, Maudsley Method, MM/FBT, Parental Support, Project EAT/Eating Among Teens, Public Health and Nutrition, Science, University of Chicago ED treatment, University of Minnesota | Tags: Adolscent Eating Behaviors, American Medical Association, anorexia, Behavioral Health, Biostatistics, Bulima, Community Health Education, Disordered Eating Behaviors, Dr Dianne Neumark-Sztainer, Eating Among Teens, Eating Disorder Advocacy, Eating Disorders, Empowered Parents/Families, Family Based Therapy, Family Meals, Health, Health & Wellbeing, JAMA, Mary Story PhD, Maudsley Method, news, nutrition interventions, Pediatric&Adolescent Medicine, Project EAT I/II, Public Health and Nutrition, Pychiatry, Pychology, Science, University of Minnesota Project EAT | 2 comments
Most of us realize how vitally important our meals with our loved ones are when they are suffeing from an eating disorder, and that they are not always an easy affair, especially when the eating disorder is unbearably strong and entrenched while healing through recovery.
Those ‘family meals’ are also jeopardized by rushed schedules, overworked and exhausted parents, and seemingly less and less of those maintained moments when we can gather together, even with the simplest but nutritious of food prepartions to share, rekindle and reconnect.
Food sustains us and nourishes us in so many ways- and as Laura Collins always reminds us: FOOD IS MEDICINE- distinctly so when your child suffers from an eating disorder.
Recently Dr Dianne Neumark-Sztainer from the University of Minnesota co-authored a longitudinal study on “the potential role of family meals as a protective factor against disorderd eating behaviors“ which may be the first published investigation of its kind examining the benefits and implications of family meals from their ongoing (love this) Project EAT research study.
I think this is empowering news since there are still lingering and erroneous views that parents, and even worse, that the sufferer are to blame or caused the eating disorder. Studies such as these also provide additional support and consideration into looking more closely at the benefits of Family-Based or Maudsley Method treatments for eating disorders and realign what we all know intuively heals a malnourished body and mind.
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