Recent Anorexia Articles page 2

Softpedia - Like anorexia, bulimia is a severe eating disorder. Only that in this situation, the person, instead of fasting, crams even 15,000 calories in two hours' time. Then, the person eliminates what she/he ate, by vomiting or taking laxatives/diuretics ...

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 ...

Memphis Commercial Appeal - But she also has seen it escalate to anorexia and self-mutilation, or "cutting." "If a kid can't control their environment, they'll find a way to," she said. And the problem doesn't play favorites. It transcends race, gender and economic status, she ...

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 ...

Daily Telegraph - Whenever former ballet dancer Lizzie Grimaldi, 36, sees an anorexic walking down the street, her impulse is always the same. Lizzie Grimaldi: 'As a teenage ballerina, everyone was on a silly regime' "I want to grab her by the shoulders and say, 'Can ...

MSNBC - Psychiatric wards are places where they take sharp objects and shoelaces from patients. My wife lived in one for two weeks, when doctors feared she was a danger to herself. The day Meg was admitted, she was 83 pounds, down from a healthy 109 on her 5 ...

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 ...

Working Dad: Dads can do plenty to help their daughters with image ...

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