Word: anorexia
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...reason we want models to gain weight, let's face it, is not mostly to protect them. It's to protect other, less genetically freakish girls--our daughters or, ahem, us--from having poor self-esteem or becoming anorexic. But people don't get anorexia from looking at fashion magazines (although it doesn't help). Anorexia is as much about a girl feeling that her life is not in her control as it is about body image. So dictating to models what their body type should be, whether to make it bigger or smaller, seems to send the wrong message...
Anne Giedinghagen wanted desperately to stay in school. Having struggled with depression and anorexia since the sixth grade, the rail-thin Cornell junior was meeting regularly with a therapist at the university's counseling center in Ithaca, N.Y. But late last fall, when she told her therapist about her increasingly strong urge to kill herself, Giedinghagen received an ultimatum from the school she loved so much: she had to get better or she would have to leave. So she did what any crafty 20-year-old would do. She tried to carve out a third option--feigning improvement...
...dietary guidelines, and “sparing” servings of red meat and white bread. Even though it isn’t exactly edible, “weight control and exercise” comprise the base of the pyramid. It’s not a call for anorexia, but rather a reminder of the benefits of breaking a sweat. Whole grains and yummy plant oils are the next most- recommended foods. “Dr. Willett’s pyramid represents the optimum of knowledge that we currently have,” said Dr. Karin B. Michels, Associate Professor...
...Anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa have both been identified to have some sort of genetic tie. Skeptics have often posited that binge eating disorder might solely be a non-specific pattern of eating, thus suggesting no real difference between the obese with binge eating disorder and those without...
...Kate Moss The breezy 98-pounder became the world's dominant beauty, reflecting the most dramatic change in tastes since the arrival of her waifish forebear Twiggy. But Moss was also vexed by controversy, being blamed for prompting anorexia among admiring girls...