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Looking back on it, there were signs. When she'd scrutinize ingredients on food labels and remove one item after another from her diet. When, even after cross-country practice ended, she stayed out there on the Williston Northampton School's fields and keep running and running, her auburn curls bouncing off her shoulders, her gaze unwavering, her weight beginning to melt away. more

Pearle Lamb: I believe that enteral feeding needs to be considered in the setting of severe malnutrition when an individual demonstrates an ongoing struggle to consume enough solids or liquids to improve his or her nutritional status. more

A study from the federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) shows that eating disorder-related hospital stays increased 18 percent from 1999-2000 to 2005-2006, with a total of 28,155 patients treated in hospitals. more

Walden Behavioral Care LLC of Waltham, one of the country's leading hospitals for treating eating disorders, recently announced that Paula C. Vass, MSW, LICSW, of Waltham has been promoted to the position of assistant vice president, clinical operations. more

Dr. James Greenblatt, the chief medical officer at Walden Behavioral Care, a hospital specializing in child and adult eating disorders in Waltham, Mass., estimates that he has recently seen about a 15 percent rise in the number of his young patients who eat only organic foods to avoid pesticides. more

Roberta Pearle Lamb, Director of Nutrition Services at Walden Behavioral Care, recently joined the FOX25 Morning News with more on the disease. more

The science of eating turns out to be a complex subject involving the interplay of genetics, biochemistry, nutrition and psychology. There will be no "one size fits all" solution. more

Psychiatry has made tremendous strides in treating all major psychiatric illness with the development of new medications. Yet there is not one drug approved for the treatment of Anorexia Nervosa. more

Walden Behavioral Care, LLC, will sponsor a half-day conference, "Advancements in the Treatment of Eating Disorders: Medications, Nutrition and Group Therapy," from 8 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. on Wednesday, March 4, in The Grand Ballroom of the Hotel Northampton. more