Margo Maine, PhD, FAED, CEDS, is a Founder and Adviser of the National Eating Disorders Association and Founding Fellow of the Academy for Eating Disorders. Author of seven books, most recently Pursuing Perfection: Eating Disorders, Body Myths, and Women at Midlife and Beyond and recipient of the 2015 NEDA Lifetime Achievement Award, she lectures internationally on eating disorders and practices in CT.
The Longest Match: defeating an eating disorder in midlife
“Eating disorders.” Most of us instantly picture a teenaged or college aged girl when we see those words. After all, doesn’t age immunize women from the body image, weight concerns and eating disorders that plague the younger years? Truth is that, more than 15 per cent of women at midlife and beyond suffer from eating..