Source: CBS News
Describes how eating disorders are on the rise in men, accounting for 25 percent of anorexics and bulimics.
Source: Newsweek
Anorexics can be male, old, Latino, black or pregnant. A new book undercuts old stereotypes.
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"Quebec is considering following France's example in the fight against anorexia, the provincial culture minister says.
As the young women of 17th century China were drawn to the famous opera, The Peony Pavilion, author Lisa See was drawn to the 17th century text, The Three Wives' Commentary, "the first book of its kind, having been written by women, to have been published anywhere in the worl …
Source: Guardian Unlimited
On March 20, the eminent academic Rosemary Pope was found dead in her Bournemouth home. She was 49 years old, and weighed just four stone 10lbs.
Source: Scholars and Rogues
Is legislation the answer to ending food disorders in the fashion industry? Maybe instead we should try honoring anorexia and bulimia. Say what? Find out what Russ Wellen is talking about at Scholars & Rogues.
Acceptance saved my life.
Source: The Globe and Mail
wo years ago, the fashion world was stunned by the death of a 5-foot-8-inch Brazilian model who, at 88 pounds, weighed no more than a child.
Source: The New York Times
PARIS — In the capital of high fashion and ultrathin models, conservative French legislators adopted a pioneering law on Tuesday aimed at stifling a proliferation of Web sites that promote eating disorders with "thinspiration" and starvation tips.
Source: NY Daily News
France - It's the first firm decision to penalize extreme thinness promoted by the fashion industry & Co...
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France, the home of high fashion and ultra-thin catwalk models, is to adopt legislation which bans websites that promote eating disorders.
Source: The New York Times
In the capital of high fashion and ultrathin models, conservative French legislators adopted a pioneering law on Tuesday aimed at stifling a proliferation of Web sites that promote eating disorders.
Source: BBC News
The French National Assembly has passed a groundbreaking bill which seeks to criminalise the promotion in the media of extreme thinness. The bill targets pro-anorexia websites and publications that encourage girls and young women to starve themselves.
Source: Guardian Unlimited
France's lower house of parliament today adopted a groundbreaking bill that would make it illegal for anyone to publicly incite extreme thinness.
Source: the Mail online
Her frame was so skeletal that doctors warned Hayley Wilde she was just over a week away from death. But three years on, after an eight-year battle against anorexia, she has bounced back in the most emphatic fashion by giving birth to a boy.
Source: the Mail online
An anorexic has given birth after doctors told her she was so ill that she only had 10 days left to live. Hayley Wilde, 20, looks a perfect picture of motherhood - but it is a world away from the skeletal image taken three years ago.
Source: Pravda
The German photographer Ivonne Thein shows her new work in Berlin: She photographed "normal weight" models and photoshopped them down to looking like as if they'd weigh 32 kilos.
Source: National Post
After being crowned Canada's first 'Top Model' on television two summers ago, Andrea Muizelaar uncovered an ugly side of the fashion industry, and walked away.
Source: The New York Times
New variations on the eating disorders anorexia and bulimia have become buzzwords that are popping up on Web sites and blogs, on television and in newspaper articles.
Source: foodconsumer.org
Editor's note: Many may not be aware that the week starting Feb 24 is designated by the National Eating Disorders Association as the national eating disorders awareness week.
Source: BBC News
Campaigners are calling for social networking websites, such as Facebook and MySpace, to clamp down on pro-anorexia sites. Doctors at one of the country's largest eating disorders treatment centres said they needed to act more responsibly.
Source: Seduction Labs
Some wealthy men are ready and willing to pay thousands of dollars for sex with misshapen women
Source: MSNBC
"To better understand a loved one's illness, Tom Cramer stopped eating, too"
I tuned into the PBS documentary "Growing Up Online" last night on Frontline for two reasons. As a member of Generation X, I'm just on the outskirts of this technologically suave generation and am striving to keep up with them.
Source: United Press International
FALMER, England, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- A British study of Swedish twins found an overproduction of estrogen may affect the baby's brain, making the child more susceptible to anorexia.