101708: Mid-Life Weight Gain and Eating Disorders

About the Course:

Webinar from the 2009 International Association of Eating Disorders Professionals Symposium.
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This workshop will discuss the physiological aspects of perimenopause and menopause, including medical and nutritional issues for women with disordered eating. Strategies for managing weight gain will be discussed, as well as recommendations for activity and nutrition supplements. The use of antidepressants and hormone replacement therapy will also be addressed.

Content Outline:
Mid-life Weight Gain and Eating Disorders: What’s a Woman to Do?

I. Mid-life eating disorders

II. Definitions and physiology of perimenopause and estrogen deficiency

III.What causes weight gain?

IV. Managing weight gain and other symptoms

V. Case study

VI. Questions and discussion

Author

Diane Keddy, MS, RD, FAED (presenter)

About the Author:

Diane Keddy, MS, RD, FAED is a nutrition therapist who has 23 years experience treating men, women and children with eating disorders in inpatient, outpatient and residential treatment settings. She is the nutrition columnist for the publication Eating Disorders Today, and has authored several professional publications on nutrition therapy for eating disorders, including the chapter on outpatient treatment in the American Dietetic Association’s textbook on eating disorders. Diane is in private practice in Newport Beach, California, where she devotes her time to treating eating disorder clients and their families.

Recommended For:

This course is recommended for health care professionals, especially psychologists, therapists, and counselors who seek to update their research knowledge and competency in treating patients with eating disorders, increase and acquire new skills, learn new intervention strategies, and obtain continuing education credits. It is appropriate for professionals at all levels of knowledge.

Course Objectives:

1. Following this presentation, participants will be able to identify, utilize and explain the use of hormone therapy versus antidepressants in the management of eating disorder and menopausal symptoms.

2. Following this presentation, participants will be able to identify, utilize and explain the use of nutrition supplements in the management of eating disorder and menopausal symptoms.

3. Following this presentation, participants will be able to identify, utilize and explain dietary and other strategies for managing weight gain during menopause.