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Bulimia: Not just for rich, white girls
In: Bulimia|Eating Disorders|Latest Research Findings|Rachel|Treatment
20 Mar 2009Cross-posted on The-F-Word.org Eating disorders are often thought to be a “rich white girl’s disease,” but a new study shows that black girls and girls from low-income families are more likely to develop bulimia than their wealthier white counterparts. The study is based on information from a government database of 2,300 girls from schools in [...]
Supersize vs Superskinny: It’s calorific!
4 Feb 2009Cross-posted on www.the-F-word.org What do you get when you combine fat hate and fearmongering, a television doctor with questionable ethics, a dubiously qualified nutritionist and a national television audience of image-obsessed people who thrive on the misery of others? Why, you get the English TV show series “Supersize vs Superskinny” or as TheStuff’s Jane Clifton [...]
The Buffet: Eating Disorders in the News
In: Eating Disorders|General|Medication|Mental Health|Pop Culture|Rachel|Treatment
23 Jan 2009Here’s a look at related headlines making the news… PsychCentral takes a look at magazines for teen girls and finds dangerously mixed messages about weight and body image. Read and be outraged and then subscribe to New Moon magazine instead. British mom Julie Lou Weston overcame her struggles with bulimia and negative body image and [...]
ED sufferers find solace in songs
13 Jan 2009I stumbled across this article by the London Observer. It discusses a YouTube short film called “My Story (Anorexia)” uploaded by 18-year-old “katerynabilyk” of the Ukraine. YouTube is flush with videos of personal stories with eating disorders, ranging from pro-recovery to pro-ana. What makes katerynabilyk’s film compelling, writes the Observer, is the combined effect of [...]
Brains of bulimics behave differently
9 Jan 2009Previous studies have shown that the brains of people with anorexia behave differently than in non-disordered people — read here. Now a new study suggests that bulimia, in part, may also be triggered by changes in the brain. Researchers at Columbia University and the New York State Psychiatric Institute studied the performances of 20 healthy [...]
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Win a copy of “Perfect Girls, Starving Daughters”
In: Eating Disorders|General|Media Reviews|Rachel|Recovery|Uncategorized
22 Dec 2008Courtney Martin’s “Perfect Girls, Starving Daughters: How the Quest the Perfection is Harming Young Women” was released in paperback recently and since I already have the hardback edition, I’m giving away the paperback I picked up. For those of you unfamiliar, Martin is a writer, teacher and feminist activist in her twenties. In a book [...]
When its not about the food
In: Body Image|Dieting|Eating Disorders|General|Pop Culture|Rachel
16 Dec 2008Much has been written in the Blogosphere about Oprah’s recent ‘fessing up to her obvious weight (re)gain. But Huffington Post contributor Deborah King’s take on it is perhaps the best I’ve read yet. After struggling with an eating disorder and other addictions in the past, King now works as a health and wellness educator. I [...]
British TV documentary request
10 Dec 2008A British TV production company is producing a documentary for ITV1 on pregnancy and body image. The film will explore the pressure women feel to stay slim during their pregnancy and to lose the baby weight after giving birth, as well as how images of celebrities affect women’s personal expectations. Also discussed will be the [...]
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Bulimia doesn’t get much billing in media column spaces. Anorexia often gets the lion’s share of attention, in part, because it’s seen as the more “glamorous” of the two eating disorders. Eating disorders are also still commonly perceived as a “woman’s disease,” or rather, a “girl’s disease” (eating disorders are most common in adolescents, but [...]
Hoorah! The largest health insurance provider in New Jersey agreed this week to settle a class action lawsuit brought by parents of children suffering from anorexia. As part of the settlement, Horizon Blue Cross/Blue Shield of New Jersey has agreed to pay claims totaling $1.2 million to 500 patients with eating disorders, as well as [...]
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This is a blog where a roster of three regular writers and several guest writers comment on the latest news about eating disorders. It isn’t just a news feed, nor a personal journal – it’s a hybrid of both. We discuss the news with our own personal spin.
We aren’t journalists or outsiders looking in. We have eating disorders. We know about this illness because we live it. Some of us are thoroughly active in our eating disorders while some are in recovery. Most are in some state in between.
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