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For teens battling eating disorders or self-harming, online support groups can actually be digital danger zones. “Make sure that what you’re looking at is actually healthy,” says one teen. “And if you can’t decide, the best thing you can do is stay away.
Compared to 20 years ago, one doctor says the public is more likely to understand this as a mental illness that comes in various forms and can afflict anyone. But insurance barriers remain, particularly for inpatient treatment centers.
“I had no idea.” That’s the theme of this year’s National Eating Disorders Awareness Week. It applies to our national inattention to the deadly toll of this disease and what we don’t realize about research and treatment. Take our quiz, it’s at the end.
Typecasting them as teen afflictions is incorrect and poses dangerous challenges for adults seeking help, says Cynthia M. Bulik in this excerpt from her book “Midlife Eating Disorders.”
In conjunction with fashion week in Italy, the cover of fashion magazine Vogue features a model with a Photoshop waistline inspired by the Guinness Book of World Records. An editor defends the image and denies it could cause any harm.
When women suffering anorexia stop having their menstrual periods many think they no longer have to worry about birth control. But the recent discovery of a higher rate of unplanned pregnancies among women with the disorder turns that thinking on its head.
Uganda’s parliament recently passed bills on domestic violence and female genital mutilation. Now one female lawmaker hopes colleagues will approve in January long-awaited modernizations of marriage and divorce.
The fashion industry was rocked last week by Spain’s decision to ban underweight models from Madrid runways in an effort to promote healthy body weights. Advocates praised the move as a positive attempt to stem the rise in eating disorders.
The League of Black Women is launching a survey that will look at what it will take for black women to become leaders in the workplace and beyond.