ANOREXIA & BULIMIA:

• Variety of therapeutic approaches have been successful –
  • Individual Psychotherapy and Cognitive-Behavioral Modification
  • Group Therapy
  • Family Therapy
  • Antidepressant Medications (more recently)
• Treatment of anorexia often requires hospitalization initially in order to ensure that starvation does not progress to fatal or near-fatal levels

OBESITY:

• Behavioral therapy designed to gradually alter patterns of diet and exercise
• Medications designed to promote weight loss
• Combination is more effective than either component by itself
• Radical approaches to weight control such as ‘fad diets’ actually increase, rather than decrease, obesity.
• Recent attention has focused on the availability of unhealthy foods and beverages in and near schools.
• Wide variability in success rates

Eating disorders are chronic.