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How to Nourish Your Child Through an Eating
Disorder: A Simple, Plate-by-Plate Approach to
Rebuilding a Healthy Relationship With Food
By Casey Crosbie, RD, CSSD, and Wendy Sterling, MS, RD, CSSD
2018, The Experiment
Paperback, 324 pages, $16.95
Both authors of How to
Nourish Your Child Through
an Eating Disorder have
extensive backgrounds
in eating disorder (ED)
treatment and currently
work with the ED popula-
tion. Casey Crosbie, RD,
CSSD, who’s a special-
ist in adolescent EDs, is
the program director at
the Healthy Teen Project, a
partial and intensive outpa-
tient program in California.
She’s published research
focusing on refeeding syn-
drome, as well as increased caloric intake and reduced length
of hospitalization in teens with EDs.
Wendy Sterling, MS, RD, CSSD, is an adolescent nutrition
expert who specializes in both EDs and sports nutrition. She’s
the team nutritionist for Oakland Athletics and has worked
in the Eating Disorders Center at Cohen Children’s Medical
Center of New York and the Healthy Teen Project.
Crosbie and Sterling’s book offers evidence-based
nutrition information and guidance to parents for child and
teen ED recovery. The authors’ nutrition approach—termed
“Plate-by-Plate”—is intended to be alongside family-based
treatment (FBT) in ED recovery. While the book’s intended
audience is parents, RDs working with ED patients can use
this book as a resource in multiple ways. Part one is rich in
necessary medical information and can be used as a tool
when needing a refresher on issues such as gastrointestinal
disturbances and relevant lab values. RDs can use part
two, which explains the Plate-by-Plate approach, to help
parents with their child’s refeeding process without using
numbers such as calories, serving sizes, or an exchange
system. The authors include beautiful, colorful photos of
plates; clearly explain the food group breakdown for meals
and snacks, offering examples from multiple cultures as
well as vegetarian options; and provide several examples of
detailed meal plans.
RDs can recommend this book to their clients’ parents as they
work through the FBT process. The book provides information
on “Returning to Normal” at the end of treatment to help parents
make the transition easily and safely, and suggested resources
at the end of the book can be of use to RDs and families alike.
As an RD who specializes in EDs, I was impressed by the
book’s thorough explanations of FBT, physiological and psy-
chological complications of eating disorders, simple and clear
yet science-backed recommendations, and professional yet
compassionate tone. I’d recommend this book to any RD who
works with young ED clients participating in FBT.— Caroline Young, MS, RD, LD, RYT, specializes in eating
disorders and disordered eating and counsels clients virtually
and in an outpatient private practice in the Atlanta area. She
writes nutrition-focused articles on a freelance basis
and blogs at TheWholeYogiRD.com.The Diabetes Cookbook: 300 Recipes for Healthy
Living, Powered by the Diabetes Food Hub
By Lara Rondinelli-Hamilton, RD, LDN, CDE,
and Chef Jennifer Bucko Lamplough
2018, American Diabetes Association
Hardcover, 398 pages, $24.95The American Diabetes Association realizes that many
different eating patterns can be helpful in managing diabetes.
Its latest cookbook, The Diabetes Cookbook, takes into account
a variety of healthful eating patterns that appeal to everyone,
with or without diabetes. Categories include gluten-free,
flexitarian, Mediterranean, low-glycemic, grain-free, and
dairy-free recipes.
The cookbook was
written by a dietitian
and chef team. Lara
Rondinelli-Hamilton,
RD, LDN, CDE, is the
owner of Revival Well-
ness and is a certified
diabetes educator with
more than 20 years of
experience counseling
people with diabetes,
high cholesterol, celiac
disease, and autoim-
mune disease. She’s
a coauthor of three