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Boston Globe - There's the seemingly well-adjusted teen who secretly visits websites that encourage anorexia; the high school kids who film themselves drinking on a bus trip, then post the footage on YouTube. And there are ample interviews with kids who are blasé ...

Reading Eagle - We meet a pretty student who spends hours on a site where anorexics share information on starving, binging and purging and where some worship a figure named “Ana,” the online goddess of anorexia. A far bleaker tale unfolds of an unpopular teen ...

New York Times - A baby-faced eighth grader, viciously bullied online, hangs himself. With a click of her mouse, a young woman with anorexia uses cyberspace to find tips on starving. A high school student, with a world of plot outlines available on the Internet ...

Boston Globe - The staff at the Plex also puts out flyers on issues such as body fat ("Lower is NOT necessarily better") and healthy exercise - as opposed to "obligatory exercise" or "anorexia athletica," feeling compelled to exercise and feeling guilty and ...