You are listening to Feeding the Mouth That Bight You with Ashley Parrish and Jessica Pfeiffer.

A weekly podcast guide on parenting teens and launching them into the world.

As always, we are joined by psychologist and author, Dr. Ken Wilgus.

Hey, everyone and welcome back on today's episode.

We will be discussing body image and eating disorders in teenagers.

Ashley, you know, today's culture and are focused on perfection in our bodies makes eating

and health and exercise hard to know what is healthy and appropriate.

It's confusing.

What we see out there is probably not all healthy, and we believe the lie sometimes.

So, Dr. Ken, could you talk with us about our teenagers and maybe just kind of give us a list of the eating disorders that you see most commonly in your practice?

Yeah, you know, it comes up in my office, as you would guess, a lot.

I spend a lot of time talking to teenagers.

And so the issue of comfort your body size and eating comes up rather a lot.

Enough that, and I think I should make sure I'm real clear about this,

treatment of an eating disorder I consider a specialty, and it think I should make sure I'm real clear about this, treatment of an eating

disorder I consider a specialty, and it is not my specialty.

So I do, it's the same thing with drugs and substances.

That's a specialty that if it's part of what a kid I'm working with is dealing with, then sure.

But if it's the primary, then it really needs to be taken on by its own

treatment, specialized treatment.

But usually when you get to, when you're talking about eating disorders, people usually know

you're talking about anorexia, which is restrictive intake of calories and so forth,

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