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Even with new rules by social media platforms to prevent pro-eating disorder sites, these “pro-ana” blogs keep popping up. “We just make new blogs, new posts and new tags,” one teen said.
As an Asian American girl with an eating disorder, Angela Hui examines how the “sociocultural environment in which I was raised played a part in the development of my illness.”
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.
My patients usually cite their thighs as a source of their body-image struggles, even when they are dangerously underweight. Listening to their extreme hatred for their thighs can be painful.
Mattel came out with Barbie in 1959, when full-figured women defined beauty and thinness wasn’t glorified. Barbie was big, but Marilyn Monroe and other Hollywood stars were bigger. Ever since Twiggy, she’s been dangerous.
As health reform is getting implemented and taking practical shape we must have coverage of this killer illness that applies to all phases of needed and critical treatment.
“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.
Our culture teaches our girls to be a hot body first and a mind second, says Melissa Atkins Wardy in this excerpt from “Redefining Girly.” Here are her suggestions for breaking the mold.
A 21-year-old magazine editor in Australia joins a movement against women’s magazines that publish digitally altered images of super-thin models. Critics say these publications are literally sickening for young women vulnerable to eating disorders.
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.”