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Nutrition
Assessment & Counseling
Services
Our Approach and Goal:
The Center offers comprehensive nutrition assessment and counseling services for people dealing with
anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, compulsive eating, food addiction, and overweight. This counseling
has proven to be an effective adjunct to psychotherapy. Staff nutritionists educate clients about food intake,
nutritional needs, and how they are related to a persons activity pattem. Our goal is to help people permanently
restructure their eating behaviors. With individual professional guidance and support, people can learn how to
select a nutritionally sound diverse array of food, conducive to the establishment and maintenance of health and
well-being. We coordinate our nutritional services with treating clinicians, so that the psychological issues related to a
persons eating behaviors are considered. We use a bio-social model of nutritional counseling addressing the psycho-social,
cultural and medical components.
How Nutritional Counseling Can Help
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ANOREXIA NERVOSA
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We understand how frightening and anxiety provoking it can be for someone with anorexia nervosa to change their eating patterns and
contemplate weight gain. As a result, our initial focus is on maximizing the nutritional value of what is eaten. This can improve health
and feelings of well-being even before weight is gained. The
degree and rate of weight gain is based on psychological as well as medical considerations.
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We help people work on controlling both their binge eating as well as their purging behavior.
The fear of weight gain typically experienced by people struggling with bulimia nervosa is addressed
throughout the nutritional counseling. In doing so, people are instructed about how to eat in a manner
that will help them avoid or minimize weight gain in the absence of purging. Attention is paid to scheduling and
meal content, two factors which are critical to establishing control of urges to binge.
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COMPULSIVE EATING/
EXCESS WEIGHT
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The assistance we provide focuses on helping people learn to identify specific emotional triggers to
compulsive eating, challenge their irrational beliefs relating to weight, body image, and self-esteem, and
develop healthy alternative behaviors to compulsive eating.
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The Program:
It is suggested that all clients currently seeking psychotherapy or counseling for an eating disorder also take
advantage of our nutrition services. These meetings are individualized, pressure free, and meant to provide
education and support.
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Center for the Treatment of Eating Disorders
570 West Mount Pleasant Ave, Suite 108, Livingston, NJ 07039
79 Hudson Street, Suite 203, Hoboken, NJ 07030
973-740-0234 Fax 973-740-0702
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