Eating Disorder Coalition of Arkansas

11/19/2025

Email from Cambridge Eating Disorder Center Help Someone Heal during the Holidays - Learn How We Can Support You.     Navigating the Holidays: A Guide to Supporting Those in Eating Disorder Recovery A

11/22/2024

Prioritize your mental health this holiday season!

https://www.sutterhealth.org/health/nutrition/eating-well-for-mental-health?fbclid=IwAR1zGXxhrwC8mJc0Ca7PaCYYwp_owinmgx7moNU7bME0tSRuKp0ev1Go_6Q

Consuming fewer processed foods can lead to better brain and emotional health.

11/13/2024

10/24/2024

“Instead of fixating on counting calories or macros, people can use intuitive eating to build trust in themselves.”

Dietitians explain what intuitive eating is, how to follow this practice, and how it serves as a rejection of diet culture.

10/03/2024

“Start paying attention to how eating different foods makes you feel…”

https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/nutritional-psychiatry-your-brain-on-food-201511168626 #:~:text=Start%20paying%20attention%20to%20how,and%20see%20how%20you%20feel.

09/25/2024

“Intuitive eating is an increasingly popular alternative to diet culture…”

Stay off the hangry-to-bingeing road by using the hunger-fullness scale -- here's how.

08/13/2024

“The media has a tremendous impact on body-image. Social media platforms are accused of distorting reality, in that the models portrayed are either naturally thin and thus unrepresentative of normality, or unnaturally thin due to forced dieting, malnutrition, and/or digital editing. Edited images have been reported to encourage men and women to compare themselves to heavily enhanced and often physically unachievable appearance ideals, which can have a serious negative impact on their wellbeing.”

January 28, 2021 By: Anita Daryanani, UCSD Dietetic Intern Photo by: Arielle Chen | Daily Trojan What Is “Diet Culture”? “Diet culture” refers to a set of beliefs that values thinness, appearance, and shape above health & well-being 1,2,3. Additionally, the concept places importance on restr...