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[quote=Anonymous]My 12 year old told me today that one of her friends is recovering from an eating disorder.  Her relationship with food still seems really disordered.  For instance, DD offered her her snack because the girl wasn't eating lunch, and the girl turned it down because it had 6 grams of fat (it was a yogurt).  Or my DD saying that she has to coax the girl to eat her lunch, because left to her own devices, she just won't.  I offered to pack extra lunch on those days the school was serving foods she found unhealthy (nachos, for instance), and DD said that the only things that her friend eats guilt-free, are fruits and salads.  She used to go days without eating until she'd pass out, or binge and purge, but apparently no longer does that.  DD says she's skinny, but doesn't look unhealthy.

This young girl has a whole host of mental health challenges that my daughter had told me about previously, and I have brought a couple of things up with the counselor that she would tell DD about but no one else knew of, but this seems to be something that is getting addressed.  Besides talking to my daughter about healthy eating, why our body actually needs things such as fats, the dangers of bingeing and purging, and so on, is there anything we should be doing to be more supportive of her recovery?[/quote]

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