Eating Disorder Awareness from Savannah to Atlanta

Admitting that you have a food problem is the first step. Then you can find solutions. Most eating disorders start with restricting food or dieting. Read the Keys Study HERE. It is amazing what happened to the subjects. This study was done before most people...

I am a "Compulsive Overeater." I came to Diets Don’t Work in June of this year with feelings of such hopelessness. I felt even more hopelessness when I learned your program was about “no dieting!” I never dreamed I could accept my body the way...

Do you remember someone bullying you as a teenager? I have asked this question to many of my adult patients at Rebecca's House Eating Disorder Treatment Programs and they can still vividly remember a bullying incident that occurred in school or home. Today bullying is...

Most people have no idea what it is really like to suffer with an eating disorder. They think it is the need to be skinny. They think the person with bulimia nervosa could quit if they really wanted to. “Just don’t do that” is a...

References From Rebecca Cooper, LMFT, LPCC, CEDS Genetics “I identified in 1990 the first gene in alcohol addiction. Specifically, we found the A1 allele (the minor form) of the D2 dopamine receptor (DRD2) gene to be associated with addiction. We researched the brain characteristics of the...

Rebecca Cooper Featured as an Eating Disorder Trailblazer Rebecca Cooper is recognized for her methods, advocacy, and years of helping people with eating disorders at Rebecca's House. Her methods are outlined in her book Diets Don't Work.

I asked the front desk to call me a ‘radio’ taxi and asked a porter to help me with my luggage. The porter, Jeremy, is someone I have come to know during my stay in Buenos Aries. He is such a kind, helpful, very tall,...

Three hours later we docked in Montevideo. Now surely I will find my tour. I frantically looked for tour signs but again there were none. I showed a uniformed man my ticket. He pointed to a bus. Again no one spoke English around me, but...

Now I began to wonder, “What do I do now?” Should I try to find a way back to the hotel or go on the ship to Uruguay? This is one of those times I wished that Scotty would beam me up from the movie,...