| Articles on Eating Disorders:
Check out the following articles:
- Articles from 1999 article featuring Josie Bode's Story.
- Articles from 1999 article featuring Lisa Arndt's Story.
- Articles from 1999 Sara Hunnicutt's Story.
- Articles from 2000
- Articles from 2000's "How Do I Look??".
- Articles from 2001 articles.
- Articles from "Beating The Odds", in 2001.
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Anorexics Sentenced To Death
Article, showing HOW AWFUL EDs are treated and HOW IMPERATIVE it is to try to change this!!*A MUST READ*
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When Life Seems Just an Empty Plate
 Eating Disorders are on the RISE among OLDER women!
- "I'm Not a Child and I'm So Afraid!"Great article about anorexics in their late teens...Afraid to Grow Up??Presumably!By: Joanna Poppink, M.F.C.C
- THE FIGHT AGAINST EATING DISORDERS By:Lindsay Morris. Jan.30,2003.Published on "Diamond Back Online".
- The Disturbing Trend of Pro-anorexia Websites
A VERY IMPORTANT article about this new,disturbing phenomenon.A new trend that is apparently "cool" and "in vogue"...Published on:December 17, 2001, on www.suite101.com.
- Hospitalization for Anorexia Can Do More Harm Than Good
Article talking about the related study.
- Anorexics' Survival Rate Normal.
Study finds death rate from anorexia not as high predicted.--March 13, 2003.
- Adult Women (age 25+) with Chronic Anorexia NervosaInteresting paper,with references at the end.Take a look!
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Cognitive-behavioral therapy for eating disorders.
Cognitive-behavioral therapy is a very active type of counseling.
- Striking the Balance
When Christy Henrich lost her battle with anorexia nervosa in 1994,people assumed it was just another case of an athlete who had pushed herself too far...- The Decision to Recover
Dr. Harry Brandt addresses the question on everyone's mind:"How can I recover?".
- Be careful how you diet--your little girl is watching!!!!Mothers,Daughters,and Body Image.
- Why Does Getting Better Feel So Bad?
Optimal Eating's Five Stages of Recovery.By Jane R. Kaplan, Ph.D.
- Does Your Personality Make You Prone To An Eating Disorder? By Ellen DeLalla, Registered Nurse & Licensed Mental Health Counselor.
- If Looks Could Kill? Woman and the mirror:what do they tell us about the feminine self and anorexia?
- How to Improve Your Body Image while Still Hating Your Body?
By:Jane Rachel Kaplan, Ph.D., M.P.H.
- Teen Vegetarians May Have Eating Disorders Study says many vegetarians want to lose weight.But,is that any good? From NewsNet5.Feb. 12,2002.
- Women admit image issuesNew Zealand women are becoming obsessed with their weight.According to a new survey,nearly two-thirds believe they are overweight and one in three say they have suffered from an eating disorder.May 17, 2003.
- Fighting fat phobiasAn interesting article! Take a look!
- Thinking of adding an Eating Disorder into your life?THE BEST ARTICLE EVER!!! I wish everyone will read!It takes you inside the mind of someone who "WANTS" to become anorexic.
- How well are 'cured' anorexia nervosa patients?
An investigation of 16 weight-recovered anorexic patients.
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Exercise bulimia:Too much of a good thing? An article describing 'Bulimic exercising', which explains how you can be bulimic and not even purge or abuse laxatives.
- Montreux Clinic This is an article on Peggy Claude-Pierre's clinic (located in Canada) and describes her 'supposedly' remarkable treatment.
- Parents can help teens keep healthy body image From CNN.com Health. June 9, 2000.
- FOOD AND LOATHING:A Memoir.One woman's 20 year struggle with food issues,body image and depression. March 24, 2003 on www.suite101.com.
- Dying To Be Thin Some young girls are trying to shed pounds they don't have to spare.
- Beauties' Ugly Secret Famous for their pinup calendars,the Barbi Twins made a handsome living displaying their bodies.But they were hiding a dangerous diet secret.Originally aired on May 22, 2002.
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Anorexia an Awful Way To Die,and for What? Published in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, on February 27, 2002.
- Recovering From Anorexia Laura, age 22, a recovering anorexic now in her final year at university in London,was brought up in France by fundamentalist Christian parents.Anorexic from the age of 14, her condition was caused by the desire to win her father's approval. Evening Standard.July 1st, 2003.
- Eating Disorders Viewed As Top Mental Health Killers Published on:February 26,2001.As seen in the Daily University Science News.
- Walking a Thin Line Many Hollywood actresses are making news with possible eating disorders.Is Tinseltown promoting body images that are impossible for humans to attain?From Science World.Dec 14,1998.
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The Infinite Mind: Wasting Away: Anorexia and Bulimia Why does food become a deadly enemy for some people? This week, we look at anorexia and bulimia. Guests include Dr. Kelly Brownell, Director of the Yale University Center for Eating and Weight Disorders; Dr. Joan Jacobs Brumberg, a historian at Cornell University and author of Fasting Girls:The History of Anorexia Nervosa and The Body Project:An Intimate History of American Girls;Dr. Walter Kaye, director of the eating disorders clinic at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and an expert on genetics; and Marya Hornbacher, author of Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia.Aired on: January 2002.
- The Beauty Obsession NOT EVEN THE WORLD'S MOST EXQUISITE women are completely satisfied.Backstage at Ralph Lauren's fall collection, a star of the fashion runways moans, "Everyone looks so beautiful here except me." From Cosmopolitan Magazine.
- Why I became anorexic At the height of her anorexia, Kate Chisholm weighed just five stone.She describes her battle with the eating disorder that nearly killed her and her road to recovery.By:Kate Chisholm.September 2,2002.
- DIETING: "Marked link found between eating disorders and TV." Very interesting article confirming the fact that images on TV do affect how we feel about ourselves.Independent Newspaper, on 06-01-2002.
- "I watched my daughter starve." Mothers of anorexics often feel guilty and powerless. Here, Irene Daly talks about her own daughter's illness, and we ask: what can other parents learn from her experience?By:Liz Jones, 22 July 2002.
- No Food is Worth A Binge! There’s an Overeaters Anonymous phrase that’s so deceptively simple that one almost dismisses it.But when you think about it: it’s about as true blue as the sky.
- AT WAR WITH HER BODY Author Marya Hornbacher chronicles unending struggle with eating disorders.By:Sylvia Rubin,in the San Francisco Chronicle, on January 29, 1998.
- It's all about losing it
San Francisco Chronicle, Nov 8, 1998.
- Prisonners of Perfection San Francisco Chronicle,Oct 19, 2000
-Eating Disorders:Not Always Obvious
The first hint often comes through the anxious voice of a parent on the phone.By: Kathleen Doheny.As featured on ABC News, on May 5,2003.
-Showing Videos & Photos Helpful to Recover??
Videos and photos seen helping anorexics recover...It's been suggested doctors can help anorexics recover by showing them videos of their emaciated bodies and family photographs to remind them what they looked like before they got ill.From Reuters Health on the Laurushealth Website,June 30, 2003.
-Ending the Obsession:
"Antipsychotic Drug Can Help Halt Anorexics’ Frantic Quest to Lose Weight".Doctors are finding that an antipsychotic drug helps anorexics end their obsession with not eating.As featured on ABC News, on July 3,2003.
-A Different Face of Eating Disorders: Diabulimia
For teens with diabetes,however,this weight issue has a name all its own: diabulimia. A dangerous disorder that can cause life-altering complications, diabulimia is a specific eating disorder that only affects people with type 1 diabetes.By:Naomi Mendelsohn,from SAVVY HEALTH.Published on August 18,2003.
-Running on Empty
The Sacramento Bee, Oct 10, 2003
-Voices of Victims
Excerpt from a personal journal,followed by comments from local women with eating disorders,and their families.Sunday,October 19, 2003.Published in the Poughkeepsie Journal
-Eating is a battle for many
By Kathleen Norton.Sunday, October 19, 2003.Published in the Poughkeepsie Journal
-Through The Looking Glass
Stunning article on what it's like to live with bulimia.Published in the Minnesota Daily, on December 5, 2003
-A Very Thin Line"I think about food and my weight all day long," says Alicia. "Just today I felt like I gained a million pounds. Sometimes in my stomach I can feel it. Bloating from drinking."
-Program addresses struggle with self-mutilation
-- They are teens who burn themselves with acid,cut themselves, bang their heads against walls or dig pens in their legs.
-Love your body and feel sexy,too
-- In general,men's sexuality is not negatively affected if a woman has a little bit of a pot belly, or thick thighs. Most men say their biggest turn-on is a woman's responsiveness in bed, not a particular body part...
-To eat? Or not to eat?
-- Eating disorders have been completely outed. Talk shows are populated with former anorexics, magazines routinely run cautionary tales, books offer up every moment of agony.. everyone is coming clean...
-What's Wrong With Our Curves?
San Francisco Chronicle, April 29, 2004
-Dancer fighting for life against eating disorder
Oldham Advertiser June 2, 2004
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