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Anorexia Nervosa: A Highly Heritable Disease?

Home > Anorexia Nervosa: A Highly Heritable Disease?

Anorexia Nervosa: A Highly Heritable Disease?

Many people believe eating disorders such as anorexia nervosa are mainly due to modern celebrity and fashion culture, which idealizes impossibly thin models and surgically enhanced stars. But new research indicates that genetic factors may strongly influence who develops eating disorders. Understanding that anorexia may be a highly heritable disease, combined with psychosocial factors, is

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Rosewood Santa Monica Helped Me See My Self Worth And Get My Life Back

The other day I went to lunch with my son. It was ‘take your parent to lunch day’ and I couldn’t help but think how grateful I was for the team at Rosewood Santa Monica for helping make that lunch date possible. They gave me the tools I needed to recover from my eating disorder.

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Rosewood Santa Monica Gave Me The Chance To Have A Voice

My eating disorder took the most valuable thing away from me—my voice. Before coming to Rosewood Santa Monica I hardly spoke in any social or professional situation. I was withdrawn into myself because thats what my eating disorder fed upon. Going into treatment I began to loosen the reigns that my eating disorder had on

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ED Matters Podcast – Spirituality And Eating Disorder Recovery – Dr. Dena Cabrera

Executive Clinical Director of Rosewood Centers for Eating Disorders, Dr. Dena Cabrera, discusses spirituality and eating disorder recovery on the Gürze-Salucore Eating Disorders Resource Catalogue Podcast: ED Matters. This fascinating interview covers what it means to be spiritual, explains how it differs from being religious, and then dives into how spirituality can be an asset

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Doctor Radio Interview With Rosewood’s Dr. Dena Cabrera

Dr. Dena Cabrera, Executive Clinical Director of Rosewood Centers for Eating Disorders, joins Dr. Carol Bernstein on the SiriusXM Radio show Doctor Radio to discuss the 2017 film To The Bone. In the interview, Dr. Cabrera and Dr. Bernstein discuss the way the film addresses the topic of anorexia as well as exploring the approach Rosewood takes when treating patients with

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Thank You For Creating A Trusting And Fun Place To Connect With Others

If you know me well, you know I LOVE snail mail…both sending & receiving it! I’m in a writing club with others who are both working toward their recovery & recovered from their eating disorder & received this sweet thank you note in the mail this morning. It’s a note from someone I’ve never met

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Dangers of Diabulimia

Diabulimia is an eating disorder in which people with Type 1 diabetes deliberately take less insulin than their bodies need in order to control their weight. The disorder, according to research, is very a dangerous way to get thin. Research has found that diabulimia raises the risk of serious diabetes complications. What is Type 1

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Back to School Can Trigger Eating Disorders

Back to school means new classes, new clothes and new friends. While a fresh start can be exciting, all of that change can also cause stress, anxiety and self-doubt. “The start of the school year is a time of transition. Kids are adjusting to new teachers, schedules and peers,” says Dena Cabrera, Psy.D., CEDS, clinical

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Thoughts from Rosewood Alumni About Our Seattle Reunion

Thank you to our incredible alumni who took the time to attend our alumni reunion in Seattle in June and share their feelings about the event. Your words mean more to us than you can ever know! Here’s a sample of what participants had to say… “Thank you guys for an incredible weekend. As ‘normal’

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Rosewood’s Dr. Dena Cabrera TV Interview On Netflix’s Controversial ‘To The Bone’

We’re grateful for the opportunity to have Rosewood Centers For Eating Disorders Executive Clinical Director, Dr. Dena Cabrera, interviewed on Good Morning Arizona about the controversial Netflix film: ‘To The Bone’. In this insightful interview, Dr. Cabrera discusses concerns about the film’s glamorization of eating disorders, skewed portrayal of people suffering from anorexia, promotion of

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