Main Line Center for Eating Disorders provides evidence-based, multidisciplinary care for children, adolescents, young adults and their families struggling with eating challenges and co-morbidities.

We are a team of Certified Family Based Treatment providers and Eating Disorder Specialists who are passionate about delivering treatments that work - because achieving holistic recovery from an eating disorder is possible.

Main Line Center for Eating Disorders provides evidence-based, multidisciplinary care for children, adolescents, young adults and their families struggling with eating challenges and co-morbidities.

We are a team of Certified Family Based Treatment providers and Eating Disorder Specialists who are passionate about delivering treatments that work - because achieving holistic recovery from an eating disorder is possible.

Services Offered

Behavioral Health

Behavioral Health

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NUTRITION

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TRAINING

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MEDICAL

children . adolescents . young adults

Main Line Center for Eating Disorders is committed to making your family’s eating experience more peaceful. We treat clients ages 5 to 30 who are medically stable for outpatient level of care.

We believe in the importance of supporting the client as well as the entire family (when relevant) as we work towards recovery. When possible, we encourage caregivers and other family members to be involved in treatment.

children . adolescents . young adults

Main Line Center for Eating Disorders is committed to making your family’s eating experience more peaceful. We treat clients ages 5 to 30 who are medically stable for outpatient level of care.

We believe in the importance of supporting the client as well as the entire family (when relevant) as we work towards recovery. When possible, we encourage caregivers and other family members to be involved in treatment.

Every client we treat at Main Line Center for Eating Disorders will receive care that reflects our core values.

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Diet Culture
Anti-Diet Culture

Idealizes thinness and equates it to health and moral value. It falsely recommends weight loss to achieve health and prevent or cure health issues.

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Promotes health enhancing behaviors like joyful movement, stress reduction, adequate sleep and a positive social support system without any expectation of weight change. Healthcare should be weight inclusive and equally accessible to all bodies.

Promotes weight loss at any
cost to mental and/or physical well-being despite a wealth of research showing that:

  • Almost no one can sustain intentional weight loss for more than a few years
  • Dieting increases the risk of developing an eating disorder
  • Weight cycling has negative health outcomes
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Trusts intuitive eating cues, honoring hunger and fullness and eating a wide variety of foods that are both nutritious and delicious. All foods are allowed into your eating world and restriction, both internal and external, are not limiting factors determining what and how much you eat.

Demonizes certain ways of
eating while elevating others. Foods
are categorized as “good” and “bad” so people are forced to be hyper-vigilant about what they eat or feed their families, feel guilty about making certain food choices and find themselves unable to honor their intuitive hunger or enjoy their eating experience.

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Focuses on food neutrality -
the idea that, with exception to certain diseases and allergies, no food is inherently good or bad, no food will cure or kill you and your self-worth is not dependent upon what you do or do not eat. There are some foods that do more in your body and some that do less, but that doesn’t make one food morally better or worse.

Perpetuates fat phobia, the oppression of people whose bodies don’t conform to the thin ideal. Both subtly and overtly, it celebrates some bodies as “good” and criticizes others for being “bad.”

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Celebrates body diversity - bodies come in all shapes and sizes and all bodies are good bodies. Embraces body positivity, and if that feels too challenging, focuses on body neutrality. It celebrates what your body can do over what your body looks like. It avoids disparaging comments about your own body of the bodies of others.

Prioritizes weight loss, calorie
burn and body change as the primary positive outcomes of movement and exercise.

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Enjoys the feel of moving your body for fun, health, stress relief, performance improvement, strength and socialization without any body change expectation.

Leads clinicians to recommend
that children’s BMI’s stay in a narrow range of “healthy” in order to prevent disease.

BMI

Values all body sizes as being healthy, capable and worthy. Believes that BMI does not determine health or fitness and one’s body size can in no way be the single factor for diagnosing illness.

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DIET CULTURE

Idealizes thinness

Idealizes thinness and equates it to health and moral value. It falsely recommends weight loss to achieve health and prevent or cure health issues.

ANTI-DIET CULTURE

Health-improving behaviors for all bodies

Promotes health enhancing behaviors like joyful movement, stress reduction, adequate sleep and a positive social support system without any expectation of weight change. Healthcare should be weight inclusive and equally accessible to all bodies.

DIET CULTURE

Promotes weight loss

Promotes weight loss at any cost to mental and/or physical well-being despite a wealth of research showing that:

  • Almost no one can sustain intentional weight loss for more than a few years
  • Dieting increases the risk of developing an eating disorder
  • Weight cycling has negative health outcomes

ANTI-DIET CULTURE

Promotes intuitive eating

ANTI-DIET CULTURE

Trusts intuitive eating cues, honoring hunger and fullness and eating a wide variety of foods that are both nutritious and delicious. All foods are allowed into your eating world and restriction, both internal and external, are not limiting factors determining what and how much you eat.

DIET CULTURE

Good foods & bad food

Demonizes certain ways of eating while elevating others. Foods are categorized as “good” and “bad” so people are forced to be hyper-vigilant about what they eat or feed their families, feel guilty about making certain food choices and find themselves unable to honor their intuitive hunger or enjoy their eating experience.

ANTI-DIET CULTURE

Food neutrality

Focuses on food neutrality - the idea that, with exception to certain diseases and allergies, no food is inherently good or bad, no food will cure or kill you and your self-worth is not dependent upon what you do or do not eat. There are some foods that do more in your body and some that do less, but that doesn’t make one food morally better or worse.

DIET CULTURE

Fat phobia

Perpetuates fat phobia, the oppression of people whose bodies don’t conform to the thin ideal. Both subtly and overtly, it celebrates some bodies as “good” and criticizes others for being “bad.”

ANTI-DIET CULTURE

Body diversity

Celebrates body diversity - bodies come in all shapes and sizes and all bodies are good bodies. Embraces body positivity, and if that feels too challenging, focuses on body neutrality. It celebrates what your body can do over what your body looks like. It avoids disparaging comments about your own body of the bodies of others.

DIET CULTURE

Exercise to burn calories and shrink body

Prioritizes weight loss, calorie burn and body change as the primary positive outcomes of movement and exercise.

ANTI-DIET CULTURE

Joyful movement

Enjoys the feel of moving your body for fun, health, stress relief, performance improvement, strength and socialization without any body change expectation.

DIET CULTURE

BMI determines health/disease

Leads clinicians to recommend that children’s BMI’s stay in a narrow range of “healthy” in order to prevent disease.

ANTI-DIET CULTURE

Weight inclusive

Values all body sizes as being healthy, capable and worthy. Believes that BMI does not determine health or fitness and one’s body size can in no way be the single factor for diagnosing illness.

Main Line Center for Eating Disorders is committed to training caregivers, educators and clinicians in prevention, early detection and intervention of pediatric eating disorders.

Main Line Center for Eating Disorders was founded to fill an insurmountable need for families seeking treatment for their loved one and to train future generations of clinicians in the service of further increasing access to care.

We are a group of experts dedicated to assisting those struggling with eating-related concerns achieve holistic recovery and build a life worth living that is free of diet culture

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