A recipe for a healthy weight

Eating disorders can take many different forms, and they affect people without restrictions on age, race, gender or lifestyle. Anorexia nervosa, bulimia and binge eating have reached nearly epidemic proportions, and the situation of each can only be improved if recognized and treated.

There are many sources of self-detrimental messages that begin to affect American children noticeably between third and sixth grade. Eating Disorders Awareness Week, Feb. 24