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7 Tips On How To Prevent Eating Disorders In The Next Generation

Dr Elayne (Saltzberg) Daniels
8 min readJul 8, 2023

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So let’s say a blockbuster movie featured a villain that siphoned over 3 million healthy life years from humanity every year. Who would be the protagonist? If that villain robbed its victims of quality of life, and even offspring, who would provide hope? (Stay with me, here This really does have to do with how to prevent eating disorders!)

But what if you could be the protagonist in this real-life drama…simply by learning how to prevent eating disorders in future generations?

Sound dramatic?

Yes, it is. Though not in a Hollywood-blockbuster, drama-for-the-sake-of-drama way.

It’s dramatic because it’s It’s intense, complicated, risky…and potentially (and too often) lethal.

If you intend to be the protagonist in your own life or in the life of someone you love, you need to know your enemy.

In the case of eating disorders, you need to know:

Eating disorders are behavioral conditions characterized by severe and persistent disturbance in eating behaviors and associated distressing thoughts and emotions.

  • what they are
  • what they’re not
  • what they can do
  • how they can start and perpetuate

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Dr Elayne (Saltzberg) Daniels
Dr Elayne (Saltzberg) Daniels

Written by Dr Elayne (Saltzberg) Daniels

508-404-9138 Psychologist, Anti-Diet, body image, HSP Coach, and more

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