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News Articles About Eating Disorders
Should I comfort my anorexic friend?
My friend has suffered from anorexia and bulimia since she was a teenager. She was
hospitalized when younger and saw a variety of specialists during her twenties and early thirties. She married during a 'good' spell, but her eating disorders returned and drove her husband away.
Thin like me
I'm not anorexic, I don't diet and I don't spend hours at the gym. I'm just naturally slim; deal with it.
In today's thin-phobic society, it is crucial for the ordinary citizen not only to be deeply concerned about those with lower-than-average body weight, but to air his or her views regularly, in front of anyone who will listen, especially if that person happens to be thin. I know, because as a thin woman, I am a frequent target of the body-image police.
Girl Fights For a Chance To Dance
Complaint filed over school's body-type rules
Like almost every 8-year-old girl, gap-toothed Fredrika Near Keefer dreams of being a ballerina.
But Fredrika and her mother charge the prestigious San Francisco Ballet School has unfairly dashed the young girl's hopes by violating San Francisco's new law banning discrimination against people based on their height and weight.
One prominent local civil rights lawyer thinks the case -- the first filed under the city's 7-month-old law -- could break new legal ground.
The girl of my dreams
I look at this model and I say she's too thin. But inside me a voice is whispering: 'I wish I was as thin as that...' Does that mean I'm anorexic - or just a normal woman?
Pinups battle bulimia
Though they bared their bodies in Playboy, pinups Sia and Shane Barbi said models are not to blame for society's obsession with personal image; they, like may women, are victims of an over-emphasis on a waif-like physique.
The sisters, known as the Barbi Twins, spoke on campus Tuesday night about their battle with bulimia and anorexia as part of Body Image Awareness Week.
Girls On A Fast Track To A Poor Body Image
Parents often wish they could slow time down as their children grow up, and two recent studies show why this might not be a bad idea. A recent study of body image that will be published in December in the International Journal of Eating Disorders surveyed 106 Old Order Amish men and women aged 14 to 67 years. Amish people live in segregated, non-industrial religious communities. They live an active horse and buggy lifestyle without using mechanical farm or household equipment.
Jockeys making a living in high-stakes sport
A jockey's stressful ride is compounded by the constant concern over making weight. That's issue drove Ronnie
Ebie, now a jockey's agent out of the saddle after eight years of torture. "I think it made me walk around in imbalance. I mean my nervous system was always on edge," he says. "I was always angry, I was always weak and always tired." Bulimia and anorexia are common occupational hazards for athletes who spend time in the hot box trying to shed pounds off their 114-pound frames. Pounds that they can't spare.
When Good Intentions Backfire and Create Food Aversions
Dr. Susan B. Roberts, an expert on childhood nutrition at Tufts University, says that statements, such as "You can't go out to play until you've finished your lunch," along with many others to cajole small children into eating what's good for them, is more likely to establish a food aversion than a desire or willingness to consume the food in question.
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