Posts Tagged ‘illinois

Earlier this summer I reported on Illinois’ House Bill 1432, which mandates health insurance companies to pay for the treatment of anorexia and bulimia. Now another new program offers help to the estimated 1.1 million Illinoisians with an eating disorder. The National Eating Disorder Association (NEDA) and volunteers from Chicago-based Timberline Knolls have teamed up [...]

I bring you good tidings from the state of Illinois, where House Bill 1432 has been passed by the Illinois House of Representatives! I reported on this bill in June while it was “under review” by Ill. Governor Rod Blagojevich and encouraged readers to contact the governor encouraging him to sign it into law. Only [...]


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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.

This does mean, however, that we may bring up some sensitive topics — things like abuse, rape, self-injury, etc., so tread carefully. We’ll tag posts with the appropriate warning label whenever possible.

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