The Importance of Nutrition as the Best Medicine for Eating Disorders

Explore: The Journal of Science and Healing

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 153-157

  Ross, Carolyn Coker ^a  

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Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; ASCORBIC ACID; CALCIUM; CLONAZEPAM; COLECALCIFEROL; CYANOCOBALAMIN; DOCOSAHEXAENOIC ACID; ESCITALOPRAM; FISH OIL; FOLIC ACID; GLUCONATE ZINC; ICOSAPENTAENOIC ACID; MAGNESIUM; MULTIVITAMIN; NICOTINIC ACID; OMEGA 3 FATTY ACID; PLACEBO; PROBIOTIC AGENT; VALERIAN; VITAMIN B COMPLEX; YOGHURT; ZINC; ZOLPIDEM TARTRATE;

ANOREXIA NERVOSA; ARTICLE; BARIATRIC SURGERY; BINGE EATING DISORDER; BIPOLAR DISORDER; BULIMIA; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONSTIPATION; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEPRESSION; DIET RESTRICTION; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DIET THERAPY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG DOSE COMPARISON; DRUG MECHANISM; EATING DISORDER; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; IRRITABLE COLON; LACTOSE INTOLERANCE; MOOD DISORDER; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; OSTEOPOROSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; STARVATION; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ADULT; EATING DISORDERS; FEMALE; FOOD HABITS; FOOD PREFERENCES; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; NUTRITION ASSESSMENT; NUTRITIONAL REQUIREMENTS; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

EID: 33847753361     PISSN: 15508307     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.explore.2006.12.012     Document Type: Article

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