You Can't Look Like a Pin-Up and Eat Like a Linebacker
Whether you're drooling over a celebrity or the petite waitress at your favorite club -- we have to work hard to get there and stay there.
Whether you're drooling over a celebrity or the petite waitress at your favorite club -- we have to work hard to get there and stay there.
Russ Wellen | Posted 04.24.2008 | Living
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.
Reuters | Posted 04.18.2008 | Living
A study of U.S. high school students provides additional evidence that eating disorders may be contagious. In a study, researchers found that binging...
AP | DEVORAH LAUTER | Posted 04.15.2008 | Living
PARIS — In image-conscious France, it may soon be a crime to glamorize the ultra-thin. A new French bill cracks down on Web sites that advise an...
Aimee Liu | Posted 02.25.2008 | Living
Eating disorders are merely symptoms of much deeper and more complex patterns of personality, anxiety, and behavior.
Aimee Liu | Posted 02.20.2008 | Living
In a world where real women wear an average size 14, why does the fashion industry mount such resistance to more substantial models? When asked, most designers reply bluntly that skinny girls make their clothes look better.
Trisha Gura | Posted 01.30.2008 | Living
Desperation for thinness is a spectrum, with life-threatening diabulimia on the severe end and simple longings to be skinny at the opposite pole.
Erin Gates | Posted 01.24.2008 | Living
It was a bizarre and horrifying experience to be filled with pure terror about having to eat while in what appeared to be a five-star restaurant.
Times Of London | Fran Yeoman | Posted 12.17.2007 | Living
Anorexia may be caused by inherited differences in the way a sufferer's brain operates, leading to obsessive behaviour, according to research. Rather...
Aimee Liu | Posted 11.22.2007 | Living
The holidays present a special challenge for people who are vulnerable to emotional over- or under-eating.
Aimee Liu | Posted 11.21.2007 | Living
The holidays present a special challenge for people who are vulnerable to emotional over- or under-eating.
Leslie Goldman | Posted 10.18.2007 | Living
How sad is it that our nation is so obsessed with being thin, with being "perfect," that we need to specifically designate a day for loving our bodies?
Tatiana Boncompagni | Posted 09.10.2007 | Living
I guess The Fashionista Diaries' producers think that promoting eating disorders -- and making it look like everyone in the fashion industry has one -- makes for better television.
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Charlotte Hilton Andersen | Posted 04.27.2008 | Living