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More late-breaking studies on the anorexia front are out today, further pointing towards the fact that anorexia is a condition that individuals are chemically-predisposed to. One study, done on twins, reveals that males of opposite-sex pairs of...
Anorexia not only plagues the person suffering from it, but those around them. This relity was played out most tragically in the case of Dubliner Lynn Gibbs and her daughter Ciara. Ciara was diagnosed with anorexia in 2006 and her mother Lynn, a...
Last week, Jezebel videographer Alex Goldberg attended a party for Maggie Norris Couture [Wha? Who? -Ed.] and who did he happen to run into? Noted fashion photographer Nigel Barker! The Top Model judge weighed in on Tyra's favorite topic, body...
Canada's Montreal Fashion Week just ended, and models were not allowed to walk the runway if they were too thin. But on LiveScience, Benjamin Radford writes that testing fashion models to see if they have an eating disorder or are anorexic is "an...
Virginia Heffernan has a piece called "The Girls Of Thinspo" for The New York Times' 'Medium' blog. She touches on the recently-reported news that France is attempting to ban "inciting thinness." Heffernan viewed some thinspo videos and writes,...
Bad news: The numbers of children with food and body image issues are on the rise, reports Fox News. 68% of elementary school teachers are concerned about eating disorders in their classes. 80% of preeteen girls are dieting. Those who diet are 8...
Get with the times: Anorexia is out and orthorexia is in. Orthorexia is when a person essentially refrains from eating certain things under the guise of being on a special diet (like Gwyenth's macrobiotics or Nat Portman's veganism). Okay, not...
This is Rosemary Pope. She died last month at the age of 49 because her anorexia caused her heart to shrink "to the size of a child's." Pope is not alone: as has been previously and recently reported, anorexia in women over 40 is on the rise....
Over on Back In Skinny Jeans, a blogger called MamaVision has written a post called "Anorexia and an Internet Suicide" about a girl named Kristi, who maintained a LiveJournal pro-anorexia site and blogged her suicide. Kristi's last post detailed...
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