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Them porous, brittle bones
28 Mar 2009At this time last year, I got a bone scan for the first time and found out I have osteopenia, the precursor to osteoporosis. This year, my bone density is even worse and now I am just on the edge of osteoporosis. I’m 27 years old and I have the bones of a woman more [...]
Office “fat talk” rant
In: Anorexia|Body Image|Charlynn|Dieting|Eating Disorders|General|Latest Research Findings|Treatment
5 Feb 2009In the last few months, I’ve had the good fortune of not being exposed to as much office “fat talk,” now that I’m down to part-time status. Most of the days I work are pretty heavy days and most people don’t have a lot of time for chit-chat. When they do, dieting is fortunately not [...]
This is a lousy post about a non-scientific survey. Deal with it.
In: Body Image|By Population|Charlynn|Eating Disorders|General|Males|Pop Culture
30 Jan 2009British news is running rampant with stories about a survey that reports 1 in 5 women ages 16-25 suffers from an anorexia or bulimia. The same survey reports that one in four persons with an eating disorder is male, and 6.4 percent of the overall population has an eating disorder. These results are higher than [...]
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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 [...]
Movie review: The Karen Carpenter Story
In: Anorexia|Body Image|Charlynn|Dieting|Eating Disorders|General|Latest Research Findings|Media Reviews|Medical Consequences|Treatment
3 Jan 2009My next review was originally going to be Hunger Point, but the movie is currently not on YouTube. Therefore, I opted for The Karen Carpenter Story instead. Click the link and watch the movie on YouTube first if you don’t want spoilers! What I like about this movie: Okay, first off, I must say that [...]
The holiday trio, round three: Christmas
In: Anxiety|Body Image|Charlynn|Eating Disorders|General|Holidays|Mental Health
27 Dec 2008As far as food is concerned, my thoughts about the final food-fest of the year are, “Why did I do that?” I know all about these tips and have read them every year for the last three years so I will handle the holidays in a healthier fashion than my starve/purge default. This year was [...]
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Movie Review: The Best Little Girl in the World
In: Anorexia|Body Image|Charlynn|Eating Disorders|General|Latest Research Findings|Media Reviews
23 Dec 2008All right! The movie reviews are back and we’re kicking off the reprise with The Best Little Girl in the World. (Annie, this one’s for you.) Click the link and watch the movie on YouTube first if you don’t want spoilers! What I like about this movie: I’m a fan of Jennifer Jason Leigh. Even [...]
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 [...]
Discussion: turning points
8 Dec 2008A recent blog entry by Aimee Liu got me to thinking about when I started the process of recovery and what prompted me into doing it. My process was very slow; I took my first go at it in summer 2004 after a long, long looooong talk with a friend who expressed his worry on [...]
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- Melanie: What a great article. I love the way it comes from the heart and addresses what I think is one of th [...]
- Emily O.: I'd just like to put out there that, having been tube-fed, I found the tube-feeding scene really ups [...]
- Emily O.: THIS IS SO TRUE. I'm in a day program where you bring your own food, and the meal plans they give yo [...]
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