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Recipe Alert! 🧑‍🍳 Greek Turkey & Rice Skillet recommended by one of our team members, Sam Zachow!

👉 Ingredients:
1 Tbsp olive oil ($0.13)
2 cloves garlic, minced ($0.16)
19 oz. Ground turkey, 97% lean ($4.59)
1 tsp dried oregano ($0.10)
1/4 tsp salt ($0.02)
Freshly cracked pepper ($0.03)
1 cup long grain white rice, uncooked ($0.66)
1/4 lb frozen cut leaf spinach ($0.42)
1/3 cup sun dried tomato halves (about 7 pcs), sliced ($1.00)
1/2 cup kalamata olives, sliced ($1.08)
1.5 cups chicken broth* ($0.21)
handful fresh parsley ($0.25)
1 fresh lemon ($0.75)
1 oz feta ($0.56)

👉 Instructions:
Add the olive oil and garlic to a large deep skillet and sauté over medium heat for 1-2 minutes, or until the garlic is fragrant. Add the ground turkey, oregano, salt, and pepper to the skillet. Continue to sauté until the turkey is cooked through (about 5 minutes).

While the turkey is cooking, slice the olives and sun dried tomatoes. Once the turkey is cooked through, add the rice, frozen spinach (no need to thaw first), olives, and sun dried tomatoes to the skillet.

Add the chicken broth and stir until everything is very well combined. Place a lid on the skillet, turn the heat up to medium high, and allow it to come up to a boil. Once it reaches a boil, turn the heat down to low or medium low, and allow it to gently simmer for 15 minutes. Use the lowest level of heat that maintains a steady simmer in the skillet.

After 15 minutes, give the skillet a brief stir, replace the lid quickly, turn off the heat, and allow it to sit for an additional 10 minutes.

While the skillet is resting, zest half of the lemon and slice it into wedges. Roughly chop the parsley. Give the skillet a final fluff and stir, then top with lemon zest, parsley, and crumbled feta. Serve with lemon wedges to squeeze over top.

🧡 Pro Tip: You can easily omit the turkey to make this dish vegetarian!

Eating disorders present plenty of challenges on their own. Further complicating recovery are co-occurring disorders; other mental health conditions that exist along with the eating disorder. These conditions may exist prior to the eating disorder, start along with the eating disorder, or begin because of the psychological distress of eating disorder.

👇 Let’s look at some common examples.

🔎 Anxiety

Anxiety is the most common co-occurring disorder, perhaps due to overlapping risk factors: rigid beliefs and behaviors, and perfectionist tendencies. Anxiety can present mentally, such as overwhelming nervousness or irritability, or physically, such as difficulty concentrating and GI issues.

🔎 Mood Disorders

Eating disorder co-occurrence is high with bipolar disorder and depression. Often the eating disorder is developed as a coping mechanism for symptoms of the mood disorder but can also occur due to malnourishment and side effects of the eating disorder.

🔎 OCD

Symptoms of OCD and eating disorders are similar: rigidity, meticulousness, perfectionism, difficulty coping with changes to daily life. Additionally, intrusive thoughts often followed by ritualistic behaviors (compulsions) can occur. As such, eating disorders can become a manifestation of these thoughts and compulsions.

Visit: http://evolvehealing.org/2023/06/08/eating-disorders-co-occurring-disorders/ to read the full blog!

👉 Over 10% of the population are affected by eating disorders – the 2nd deadliest mental illness. The good news is that recovery is possible with early detection and proper treatment.

Source material:https://cdn.optumeap.com/pdf/Eating%20disorder%20parent%20screener_en-US.pdf

Challenges in Treating Teens with Eating Disorders🔎

👉 From schoolwork and extracurriculars to college applications and social pressure, the teen years are stacked with challenges even without the addition of an eating disorder.

👉 Even though family-based treatment (FBT) is the evidence-based treatment for eating disorders in adolescents, parents may feel uncertain about having such an active role in their teen’s recovery. Because independence is such a central part of the teen years, parents may feel uncomfortable making the shift to FBT, which requires that family members temporarily make all food decisions and supervise meals. The crucial thing to remember here is that in order for your teen to develop true autonomy and resume their healthy development, they must first become independent from their eating disorder.

Sources:
Ward ZJ, et al. Estimation of Eating Disorders Prevalence by Age and Associations With Mortality in a Simulated Nationally Representative US Cohort. JAMA Netw Open. 2019 Oct 2;2(10):e1912925.
Asch DA, et al. Trends in US Patients Receiving Care for Eating Disorders and Other Common Behavioral Health Conditions Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic. JAMA Netw Open. 2021;4(11):e2134913.
Klump KL. Puberty as a critical risk period for eating disorders: a review of human and animal studies. Horm Behav. 2013 Jul;64(2):399-410.
Eisenberg D, et al. Eating disorder symptoms among college students: prevalence, persistence, correlates, and treatment-seeking. J Am Coll Health. 2011;59(8):700-7.

Causes of Eating Disorders in Teens🔎

👉 Eating disorders often develop out of a “perfect storm” of contributing factors, such as genetic vulnerability combined with environmental, social, or cultural factors.

👉 The teenage years in particular present a host of factors that can fan the flames of an eating disorder, helping to explain the high rates of eating disorders in teens. For one, hormonal changes during puberty may play a role in the development of eating disorders, particularly for girls. Social media is at the center of many teens’ lives, and research has shown that these platforms may aggravate existing body image concerns or disordered eating.

Sources:
Ward ZJ, et al. Estimation of Eating Disorders Prevalence by Age and Associations With Mortality in a Simulated Nationally Representative US Cohort. JAMA Netw Open. 2019 Oct 2;2(10):e1912925.
Asch DA, et al. Trends in US Patients Receiving Care for Eating Disorders and Other Common Behavioral Health Conditions Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic. JAMA Netw Open. 2021;4(11):e2134913.
Klump KL. Puberty as a critical risk period for eating disorders: a review of human and animal studies. Horm Behav. 2013 Jul;64(2):399-410.
Eisenberg D, et al. Eating disorder symptoms among college students: prevalence, persistence, correlates, and treatment-seeking. J Am Coll Health. 2011;59(8):700-7.