Posts Tagged ‘Eating Disorders’
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 [...]
After two weeks of contentious and high-spirited debate, the federal government’s ambitious and historic plan to bail out the nation’s financial system was signed into law by President Bush on Friday. While H.R. 1424 is intended to resuscitate the nation’s ailing financial health, the act also helps to improve the nation’s mental health: Amongst the [...]
Chat with Trisha Gura this coming Tuesday
25 Sep 2008The Center for Eating Disorders at Sheppard Pratt (CED) will be hosting a live chat with Dr. Trisha Gura on Tuesday, September 30 starting at 8 p.m. EDT. Gura is the author of Lying in Weight: The Hidden Epidemic of Eating Disorders in Adult Women and has become an advocate for dispelling the myth that [...]
Just when you thought any sense of corporate social responsibility to be extinct, Canadian fashion retailer La Maison Simons gives us cause for hope. The family-owned company yanked its own 36-page-color fashion catalogue after receiving more than 200 complaints that the young models on its glossy pages displayed more bone than flesh. Company president Peter [...]
A gold medal isn’t worth dying for
In: Anorexia|Bulimia|Latest Research Findings|Pop Culture|Rachel
6 Aug 2008The international Olympic Games is a time to celebrate individual and team accomplishments with nationalistic fervor. We marvel at the incredible strength, dedication and perseverance of athletes who perform seemingly superhuman feats with aplomb — like those featured here and here. What’s not often discussed are those cases of (primarily female) athletes for whom the [...]
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Aaron Ferguson, a former accountant for Rachael Ray’s TV cooking show, recently filed a lawsuit against CBS and three employees of the show (none of which include Ray) alleging that his supervisor repeatedly exhibited “hostile behavior” and made “vile,” discriminatory and hurtful comments. Ferguson said he repeatedly complained about his supervisor’s use of discriminatory language [...]
The world sucks a little more without George Carlin
In: Anorexia|Binge-Eating Disorder|Charlynn|Eating Disorders|In Memoriam
24 Jun 2008Comedian George Carlin died Sunday at 71. Known for not mincing words and his sharp wit, he challenged conventional wisdom and transformed any subject into comedy gold – the more controversial the better. He tackled everything from abortion to children to the state of the country and scripted his “tell it like it is” perspective [...]
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Eating disorders and mental health parity
In: Anorexia|Bulimia|Eating Disorders|Legal Issues|Mental Health|Rachel
23 Jun 2008CBS has a report on some sad news to come out of San Diego. Twenty-six year old Janell Smith was hospitalized in January this year for anorexia. A feeding tube kept the severely underweight woman alive. But three weeks later just as Janell seemed to be improving, her father said he got a call from [...]
Eating disorders in the news
In: Body Image|Eating Disorders|Latest Research Findings|Media Reviews|Rachel
11 Jan 2008Lots of eating disorders/body image headlines making the news these days. Here’s a quick round-up: The Daily Mail reported last week on the rising numbers of eating disorders across Great Britain. Official statistics show eating disorders there have become so widespread – stats show a 40 percent increase in anorexia since 1990 – they are [...]
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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.
Nothing is off-limits in terms of coverage. We write about everything from the onset of eating disorders to the long-term consequences thereof. We write about all eating disorders, not just anorexia and bulimia. And we write media reviews, short stories, and whatever comes to mind in relation to current events.
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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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- Kari: I'm glad you're keeping the site around but I'm even happier for you moving on. Best of Luck hun. [...]
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