{"id":290,"date":"2017-02-24T14:46:09","date_gmt":"2017-02-24T18:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/nutritionalepilab\/?p=290"},"modified":"2017-04-25T12:50:33","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T16:50:33","slug":"athletes-eating-disorders-an-olympic-hopeful-shares-his-journey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/nutritionalepilab\/2017\/02\/24\/athletes-eating-disorders-an-olympic-hopeful-shares-his-journey\/","title":{"rendered":"Athletes &#038; Eating Disorders- An Olympic Hopeful Shares His Journey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Athletes are 2-3x more at risk for eating disorders compared with other populations. Those impacted span all types of sports, competitive levels and genders.<\/p>\n<p>One example is David Proctor, a former All-American runner at Boston University and current Olympic hopeful. One might think he doesn\u2019t fit the typical profile for someone with an\u00a0eating disorder, but the reality is there is no typical profile. An eating disorder can happen to any athlete \u2013 no one is immune.<\/p>\n<p>Walden was fortunate to have David share his powerful story as part of our latest Facebook Live. He was joined by <strong>Paula Quatromoni<\/strong>, senior consultant for Walden\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.waldeneatingdisorders.com\/treatment-programs\/specialized-eating-disorder-treatment-programs\/goals-intensive-outpatient-program-for-competitive-athletes\/\" target=\"_blank\">GOALS Program for Competitive Athletes<\/a>\u00a0and tenured associate professor of Nutrition and Epidemiology at Boston University, who played an active role in David\u2019s recovery.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.waldeneatingdisorders.com\/athletes-eating-disorders-an-olympic-hopeful-shares-his-journey\/\" target=\"_blank\">Continue reading<\/a>,\u00a0and view the video clip available below.<\/p>\n<div class=\"responsiveVideo responsive-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jETFISEXRnc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Athletes are 2-3x more at risk for eating disorders compared with other populations. Those impacted span all types of sports, competitive levels and genders. One example is David Proctor, a former All-American runner at Boston University and current Olympic hopeful. One might think he doesn\u2019t fit the typical profile for someone with an\u00a0eating disorder, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/nutritionalepilab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/nutritionalepilab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/nutritionalepilab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/nutritionalepilab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/nutritionalepilab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/nutritionalepilab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":438,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/nutritionalepilab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions\/438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/nutritionalepilab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/nutritionalepilab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/nutritionalepilab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}