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Eating Disorders: What's In A Name

Srinivasan Pillay | Posted 11.17.2011

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Srinivasan Pillay

We continue to call these disorders "eating disorders" as though the primary deficit was "eating." That's like calling a pneumonia "coughing disorder" or a tumor causing weakness "weakness disorder'.

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How to Free Yourself From Dieting - Step 2

Colleen Perry | Posted 11.17.2011

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Colleen Perry

Often, chronic dieting or the development of an eating disorder is a mask for feelings in your life over which you sense you have no control; depression, anxiety, or loss. Your body becomes a battleground.

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Fattening Up Fashion Models

Russ Wellen | Posted 11.17.2011

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Russ Wellen

Is legislation the answer to ending anorexia in the fashion world? Europe has begun to recoil from an industry that sees "hunger to succeed" as literal.

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