Answers to Anorexia: A Breakthrough Nutritional Treatment That Is Saving Lives
James Greenblatt, "Answers to Anorexia: A Breakthrough Nutritional Treatment That Is Saving Lives"
English | ISBN: 1934716073 | 2010 | 288 pages | PDF | 17 MB
English | ISBN: 1934716073 | 2010 | 288 pages | PDF | 17 MB
This book offers the first new medical treatment plan in 50 years for anorexia nervosa, the "self-starvation" disease that affects adolescents and women of all ages in the U.S. and is now increasingly common in men.
Written by a leading psychiatrist and eating disorder expert, the book is based on cutting-edge research on nutritional deficiencies in anorexia that have been long ignored, and the use of a simple but revolutionary brain test that can help psychiatrists select the best medication for each individual person. James Greenblatt, MD, explains that anorexia is a complex disorder with genetic, biological, psychological, and cultural contributing factors. In other words, anorexia is not primarily a psychiatric illness as has been believed for so long; rather, it is a medical illness of starvation that causes malnutrition in the body and the brain. Successful treatment must focus on correcting this malnutrition.
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