Anorexia

You Can't Look Like a Pin-Up and Eat Like a Linebacker

Charlotte Hilton Andersen | Posted 04.27.2008 | Living


Charlotte Hilton Andersen

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.

Fattening Up Fashion Models

Russ Wellen | Posted 04.24.2008 | Living


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.

Are Eating Disorders Contagious?

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...

Should Thin Be Illegal?

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...

Let's Give Eating Disorders a New Name

Aimee Liu | Posted 02.25.2008 | Living


Aimee Liu

Eating disorders are merely symptoms of much deeper and more complex patterns of personality, anxiety, and behavior.

There's No Accounting for Fashion

Aimee Liu | Posted 02.20.2008 | Living


Aimee Liu

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.

Body Sculpting Secrets

Trisha Gura | Posted 01.30.2008 | Living


Trisha Gura

Desperation for thinness is a spectrum, with life-threatening diabulimia on the severe end and simple longings to be skinny at the opposite pole.

My Time Inside a Celeb Rehab Clinic

Erin Gates | Posted 01.24.2008 | Living


Erin Gates

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.

Research: Anorexia Not Caused By Celebrity Worship

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...

This Holiday...Don't Kill the Messenger

Aimee Liu | Posted 11.22.2007 | Living


Aimee Liu

The holidays present a special challenge for people who are vulnerable to emotional over- or under-eating.

This Holiday...Don't Kill the Messenger

Aimee Liu | Posted 11.21.2007 | Living


Aimee Liu

The holidays present a special challenge for people who are vulnerable to emotional over- or under-eating.

Love Your Body?

Leslie Goldman | Posted 10.18.2007 | Living


Leslie Goldman

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?

The Anorexia Diaries?

Tatiana Boncompagni | Posted 09.10.2007 | Living


Tatiana Boncompagni

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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