The January, 2010 issue of Archives of General Psychiatry includes a study that may be of interest, entitled "Psychological Treatments of Binge Eating Disorder."
The abstract is reprinted here, and the article can be acessed on the journal's website with a subscription.
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There continues to be much dialog about the usefulness and merit of the Body Mass Index (BMI) as a tool for screening and diagnosis of eating disorders. For example, there is current discussion underway about routinely monitoring BMI among patients diagnosed with a psychiatric illness.
Today, my colleague and friend, Margarita Tartakovsky, MS, offers a very informative guest blog piece about BMI for our learning. Margarita is a writer/blogger for Psych Central and authors very helpful articles about body image and eating disorder issues. Thanks to Margarita for sharing her guest post with us today.
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