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Contributor: Crystal Karges, MS, RDN, IBCLC
Crystal Karges, MS, RDN, IBCLC, is a registered dietitian nutritionist (RDN) specializing in eating disorders, maternal/child health and wellness, and intuitive eating. As a Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor, Crystal has dedicated her career to helping others establish wholesome relationships with food and their bodies.
Articles Written
- Binge Eating Disorder: Celebrate Your Recovery by Committing to You
- Binge Eating Disorder: Impulse Control and a Recovery Coach
- College Life & Sororities: Too Much Pressure to be Beautiful and Thin?
- Challenges for College Men Susceptible to an Eating Disorder
- Binge Eating Disorder: How College Can Make It Worse
- Are People Genetically Predisposed for Eating Disorders?
- Body Image and Self-Talk: Do Affirmations Help?
- Body Dysmorphic Disorder and Why It’s So Dangerous
- Body Image: How It Affects Middle-Aged Women
- Dealing with Pregnancy and Eating Disorders, What to Expect
- Binge Eating Disorder and Athletes
- Cooking for Yourself When Living Independently
- Dietetic Majors and Eating Disorders
- Affording Food as a College Student
- ANGI Study and UNC Center for Eating Disorders
- Comparing the Efficiency of Online Support vs. Face-to-Face Support
- Body Image and Anxiety
- Body Dysmorphic Disorder and Social Anxiety
- Building Body Image From the Inside Out: Making Peace with Your Body
- Body Dysmorphia Treatment
- Bulimia and the Brain: How Is Neurobiology a Factor?
- Bulimia: From Ingestion to Purging – What Happens Within the Body?
- Anorexia and Medication: What Helps?
- Anorexia and the Brain: What Do We Know?
- Anorexia and Infertility: Causation or Correlation
- Dealing with Food Pushers During the Holidays and New Year
- College Students: Returning Home for Break and Maintaining Recovery
- Christmas, New Years and Eating Disorder Relapse Prevention
- Christmas, New Years and Eating Disorder Recovery
- Bulimia and Anxiety: How Do They Relate?
- Bulimia and Teenagers: Risks, Dangers, and Complications
- Bulimia and Mothers: Taking Care of Others but Not Themselves
- Binge Eating Disorder and Family Patterns of Self-Soothing
- Benefits of Yoga for Eating Disorder Recovery
- “Spring Break”: When Poor Body Image Gets You Down
- Diet Fads and Eating Disorders
- Are New Year’s Resolutions Helpful in Eating Disorder Recovery?