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...Steiner-Adair is director of education, prevention and outreach of the Harvard Eating Disorder Center, as well as an associate with the Harvard Project on the Psychology of Women and Girls' Development...
...Steiner-Adair said she began her study of eating disorders in the 1970s, while collecting research for her dissertation among high school girls at The Dana Hall School and Phillips Academy...
...noticed that when they were stressed, miserable, depressed, they would announce their pain or suffering or need to talk to someone by talking about their bodies," Steiner-Adair said...
When asked to describe society's image of the ideal woman, adolescent girls in the 1970s placed the greatest emphasis on "thinness," Steiner-Adair said. In the 1980s, girls emphasized athleticism...
...Steiner-Adair said she considers eating disorders to be as much of a cultural phenomenon as a psychological or genetic one. In the course of her studies, she said she noticed that girls who are among the first to enter traditionally all-male schools or professions, the "front-line soldiers," were at the highest risk of developing an eating disorder...