Posts Tagged ‘weight loss’
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 [...]
Pro-ana goes public
24 Nov 2008Newsweek has an interesting article out on how pro-ana groups are coming out of the anonymous shadows of free-hosted websites and into the very public arena of Facebook. Anti-pro-ana Facebook groups still outnumber pro-ana sites on Facebook by a wide margin, but increasing numbers of pro-ana groups are now being launched on the site, with [...]
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- Tags: ana, anorexia, bulimia, Dieting, eating disorder, ED-NOS, facebook, lose weight, mia, newsweek, pro-ana, purging, weight loss
Would you take a drug for weight loss if it made you as dumb as a rock?
In: Binge-Eating Disorder|Charlynn|Eating Disorders|Latest Research Findings|Medication
24 Aug 2008Have researchers found a magic pill to cure obesity? Maybe, if you’re a binge-eater. Researchers have found that a recently-developed drug for epilepsy helps obese rats lose weight. The drug, Vigabatrin (GVG), also shows promise in treating drug addiction. Tests currently being conducted on cocaine and methamphetamine addicts are determining whether GVG successfully prevents the [...]
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- Tags: binge eating, obesity, Topamax, Vigabatrin, weight loss
More on ‘pregorexia’
In: Pop Culture|Rachel
11 Aug 2008“-rexia:” An overused buzzword that is to disordered eating what Watergate is to political scandal. Delaney and I must be on the same wifi wavelength because our reactions to the new “pregorexia” term are much the same. Read more about this “new” disorder in this MSNBC story on how celebrity mamas are fueling postpartum baby-body [...]
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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- Tags: allie outram, anorexia, anorexia athletic, athletes, Bahne Rabe, Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, body fat, Bryony and Kathryn Frost, bulimia, Cathy Rigby, charlotte dale, Christy Henrich, disordered eating, Eating Disorders, helen lee, Kimiko Hirai Soldati, Nadia Comaneci, olympics, running on empty, sports, weight loss
This is the aftermath
1 Jan 2008(Editor’s note: This is the first of what I hope will be many articles from Meg, who has joined us on Disordered Times. Welcome, Meg!) I don’t know why I write New Year’s resolutions. I never keep them. Does anyone? The only thing I could think of to write was “lose 60 lbs.” I wrote [...]
The hijacking of Body Image Month
In: Binge-Eating Disorder|Body Image|Dieting|Eating Disorders|General|Pop Culture|Rachel
27 Nov 2007It’s always an interesting study in sociology to examine how popular mass media interprets the concept of “Body Image” campaigns. Take the celebrity news and gossip show Access Hollywood, for example. Now in its twelfth season of syndication, the popular newsmagazine and half-hour television show has declared November to be Body Image Month. Here’s a [...]
What do women really want?
12 Sep 2007The city I live in is hosting a women’s expo this weekend, with Erin Brockovich headlining the event. The publicity has been everywhere, and the newspaper I work for has sponsored the event heavily. We published a guide that told readers what they could expect to find at the weekend-long bonanza, along with articles that [...]
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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 [...]
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