Eating Disorder Awareness

Teens Mentoring Teens

Dr. David Herzog | Posted 04.26.2012

Read More: Media Literacy, Girls' Self-Esteem, Positive Body Image, Eating Disorders Advocacy, Eating Disorders, Eating Disorder Awareness, Body Image, Eating Disorder Education, Women and Body Image, Impact News
Dr. David Herzog

The Teen Mentors have learned to talk openly about the process of accepting oneself and one's body. They feel supported as they ask questions that every girl faces when she builds her identity: "Am I pretty enough?"

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Margaret Wheeler Johnson

David Herzog, M.D., Founder Of Harris Center For Eating Disorder Research, Talks Fashion Industry

HuffingtonPost.com | Margaret Wheeler Johnson | Posted 04.02.2012

Read More: Karlie Kloss, Harris Center for Education and Advocacy in Eating Disorders, Fashion Industry, Harris Center, Eating Disorder Awareness, Eating Disorders, Anna Wintour, Arianna Huffington, Massachusetts General Hospital, David Herzog, Franca Sozzani, Women News

David Herzog, M.D., founded the Harris Center for Education and Advocacy in Eating Disorders at Massachusetts General Hospital in the early 1990s. On ...

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'I No Longer Think About Whether Or Not I Deserve Food'

Marianne Mollmann | Posted 05.02.2012

Read More: Women-Authentic-Beauty, Women's Rights, Anorexia, Eating Disorder Awareness, Eating Disorders, Parenting, Neda, Bulimia, National Eating Disorder Awareness Week, Family, Women News
Marianne Mollmann

Many of us don't like to talk about eating disorders because we've been very close to a sufferer. In my case, me.

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Eating Disorder Lit: Helpful Or Triggering?

Blisstree | Posted 02.29.2012

Read More: Eating Disorders, Books, National Eating Disorder Awareness Week, Eating Disorder Awareness, Eating Disorder, Women News

Is eating disorder lit 'triggering?' That's the question we found ourselves asking at Blisstree when planning for National Eating Disorder Awareness W...

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COLORed Folks -- Share Your Shame, Fight the Stigma

Adia Colar | Posted 02.08.2012

Read More: Shame, Stigma, Therapy, Not All Black Girls Know How to Eat, Mentoring, Eating Disorders, Bulimia, Mental Illness, Eating Disorder Awareness, Addiction and Recovery, Black Women Eating Disorders, ED Recovery, Healthy Living News
Adia Colar

There was a time when I wasn't willing to admit I had an eating disorder. After all, I was supposed to be on top of everything -- a good example for my school, my family, God, my race... and the list continued. An eating disorder didn't fit into that equation.

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It's Time To Talk About It: Everyone Can Do... Just One Thing

Jenni Schaefer | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Bed, Eating Disorders Not Otherwise Specified, Recovery, Unhealthy Diet, Destructive Behavior, Eating Disorders, Psychology, Binge Eating Disorder, Compulsive Overeating, Purge, Rehab, Binge Eating, Jenni Schaefer, Mental Illness, Anorexia, Dieting, Neda, Binge, Hello Me, Ed, Life Without Ed, Goodbye Ed, Rehabilitation, Bulimia, Ednos, Eating Disorder Awareness Week, National Eating Disorders Awareness Week, Eating Disorder Awareness, Healthy Living News
Jenni Schaefer

Eating disorders come in all shapes and sizes. They don't discriminate by size, weight, ethnicity, gender, culture, age, or anything else.

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Binge Eating Disorder: The Emotional Roots of a Physical Condition

Sunny Gold | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Anorexia, Health, Eating Disorder Help, Eating Disorders, Health Tips, Binge Eating Disorder, Bulimia, Wellness, Binge Eating, Emotional Eating, Health Advice, Mindful Eating, Eating Disorder Awareness, Body Image, Women's Health, Healthy Living News
Sunny Gold

Except for a lucky few, most obese people are treated for the physical symptoms and tangible causes of their ills -- but not the emotional and mental roots.

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Wintour, Kors Talk Eating Disorders

The Harvard Crimson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Eating Disorders Fashion Industry, Eating Disorder Awareness, Michael Kors, Eating Disorders, Harvard Crimson, Anna Wintour, Eating Disorders Fashion, Natalia Vodianova, Eating Disorders Models, Body Image, College News

Vogue Editor-In-Chief Anna Wintour and fashion designer Michael Kors were among the prominent speakers from the fashion industry who spoke about eatin...

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What the World Needs Now: More Celeb Body TMI (Yes, You Read That Right!)

Sunny Gold | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Celebrity Body, Celebrity Diets, Body Image, Anorexia, Eating Disorder Awareness, Eating Disorders, Bulimia, Healthy Living News
Sunny Gold

I'm dead tired of hearing bone-thin women say they just "hike Runyon Canyon with their dogs"--and it's kind of heartening when brave young stars admit what the Hollywood pressure to be thin is really like.

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Trial By Fire: How Opening A Restaurant Cured My Eating Disorder

Virginia Bell | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Food Addiction, Restaurant, Anorexia, Eating Disorder Awareness, Nutrition, Cooking, Health, Eating Disorders, Food, Health Tips, Chef, Overeating, Bulimia, Healthy Living News
Virginia Bell

I would either end up 300 pounds or I'd beat it, but I couldn't continue to live with this monkey on my back. In 1974 I opened a natural foods restaurant in Greenwich Village. It was the best thing I ever did.

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Experience And Strength With Eating Disorder Recovery In Female Athletes

Kimberly Dennis, M.D. | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Anorexia, Eating Disorder Awareness, Health, Kimberly Dennis Huffington Post, National Eating Disorder Awareness Week, Eating Disorders, Health Tips, Kimberly Dennis, Overeating, Bulimia, Healthy Living News
Kimberly Dennis, M.D.

Eating disorders and disordered eating are commonly experienced by female athletes, but are unfortunately sorely under recognized by coaches, teachers, parents, therapists and physicians.

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