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Recognizing the Signs of Anorexia

Tennie McCarty | Posted 04.08.2013 | Healthy Living
Tennie McCarty

Individuals suffering from eating disorders and other food-related addictions often try to hide their behavior. If you suspect a loved one is suffering from anorexia, do not ignore the signs. Seek help from a professional.

Teens, College Students and Body Image

Barbara Greenberg | Posted 03.24.2013 | Women
Barbara Greenberg

Perhaps young women who have so much influence over each other can be persuaded to use it positively once they are made aware of the impact of their behavior, talk and presence.

The 'Biggest Scandal' Of Our Time

Reuters | Posted 12.08.2012 | Business

* UN agencies estimate 868 mln people going hungry * Revise previous estimates with new methodology * Progress to reduce...

U.S. Poised to Violate Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty

Pat LaMarche | Posted 11.17.2012 | World
Pat LaMarche

Wasting money on weapons when the U.S. is reeling from overwhelming debt and consequently slashing assistance to the needy isn't the only reason to question this enormous expenditure. The big looming unknown is the value of U.S. ink on paper.

SISTER GIANT: Consciousness and Politics

Marianne Williamson | Posted 11.06.2012 | Impact
Marianne Williamson

Would our legislative priorities be what they are today -- tending always in the direction of serving those with economic leverage first -- were those legislative bodies anywhere near gender equal? Would the "war on women" exist as it does now?

Woman Starved Teen Daughter To Death, Cops Say

The Huffington Post | Andy Campbell | Posted 06.18.2012 | Crime

A Georgia woman is charged with murder and deprivation after her teenage daughter was found dead of apparent malnourishment on Saturday. Police arr...

Deepening Food Insecurity Casts Shadow Over South Sudan's First Birthday

Paul O'Brien | Posted 08.08.2012 | Impact
Paul O'Brien

If war breaks out between South Sudan and the Republic of Sudan, fewer resources will be available to make the necessary investments that will allow the South Sudanese people to lead fruitful, rewarding lives -- above the poverty line and food secure -- in the new Republic of South Sudan.

Hunger in America

Christina Weiss Lurie | Posted 07.04.2012 | Impact
Christina Weiss Lurie

I should have been prepared for the notion that hunger was prevalent here in the United States, but I wasn't. I was shocked to hear that a First World country had such an ignominious reality prevalent across all 50 states.

FOUND: Skeletal Remains May Be 10-Year-Old Boy Allegedly Starved By Parents

AP | Posted 06.25.2012 | Crime

DALLAS — A medical examiner believes skeletal remains found in a rural creek south of Dallas are those of a 10-year-old boy who was allegedly st...

Feeding Tube Diet: Shut Up, and Eat

Greg Archer | Posted 06.23.2012 | Healthy Living
Greg Archer

The recent news about a new diet fad among brides-to-be has generated a flood of headlines and outrage.

Weight Loss: What's the Point?

Lisa Turner | Posted 06.22.2012 | Healthy Living
Lisa Turner

What would happen if, instead of worrying about what you had for breakfast, you focused instead on becoming exquisitely comfortable with who you are as a person? Instead of scrutinizing yourself in the mirror, looking for every bump and bulge, you turned your gaze inward?

Boy 'Ate His Own Feces' While Parents Starved Him To Death

The Huffington Post | Hilary Tuttle | Posted 06.02.2012 | Crime

Dallas police have arrested a father and stepmother for allegedly starving their son to death almost a year ago. Aaron and Elizabeth Ramsey were ar...

Desolation Row: Five Pictures of the Future in a Paul Ryan/Mitt Romney America

Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted 05.30.2012 | Politics
Richard (RJ) Eskow

Economic radical Paul Ryan has endorsed Mitt Romney, Romney's embraced the Ryan budget, and the House Republicans have voted to enact the Romney/Ryan vision of the future into law. Yet an eerie silence has settled over the vision itself.

Food Security

Jesse Seaver | Posted 05.20.2012 | Impact
Jesse Seaver

When we're hungry, we expect to eat. In fact, we expect to be able to eat whatever we want. Eating when we are hungry -- or, as many of us like to say, when we are "starving" -- is easily taken for granted.

Cara Santa Maria

TALK NERDY TO ME: Why Didn't This Man Freeze To Death?

HuffingtonPost.com | Cara Santa Maria | Posted 04.23.2012 | Science

2012-02-23-Screenshot20120223at9.28.59AM.jpgDespite the freezing temperatures, snow can actually offer crucial ingredients for survival.

Man Survives Two Months In Snow-Covered Car

The Huffington Post | Laura Hibbard | Posted 02.21.2012 | Good News

Peter Skyllberg, a 44-year-old man from Sweden, survived two months trapped in his snow-covered car due to a "natural igloo" that formed from the air ...

Wisconsin Couple Starved Child, Forced Her To Eat Feces: Cops

AP | By CARRIE ANTLFINGER | Posted 04.16.2012 | Crime

MILWAUKEE -- A severely malnourished Wisconsin teenager found walking barefoot in pajamas outside in the cold last week had been forced to stay in an ...

The American Deficit: Where Do We Go From Here?

Marian Wright Edelman | Posted 03.14.2012 | Black Voices
Marian Wright Edelman

As another political season gets into full swing in the United States, a new crop of candidates are making a lot of promises about their competing visions of America. But how many TV debates are focusing on whether America is a compassionate nation?

Remembering a Poor Baby

Marian Wright Edelman | Posted 02.20.2012 | Impact
Marian Wright Edelman

When Britany Lewis was born, no trumpets and glad tidings or even balloons and baby showers greeted her arrival. She was just another poor baby. Brita...

Wampanoags and Peanut Farmers

Mark Moore | Posted 01.23.2012 | Impact
Mark Moore

This year's Thanksgiving celebration will take place as millions of children face starvation in the Horn of Africa and in developing nations around the world. And I am wondering if we will be as generous as the Wampanoags.

Cops: Couple Starved Infant Daughter

AP | By TODD RICHMOND | Posted 11.18.2011 | Crime

MADISON, Wis. -- A Wisconsin couple who were worried that their infant daughter would become obese starved her for months, causing the girl to gain ju...

Women Own 1% of the World's Property -- Occupy That

Soraya Chemaly | Posted 01.04.2012 | Women
Soraya Chemaly

How much poorer do we want women to get in the world? It's really hard to imagine. Despite the successes of feminists during the past century, even in the U.S. we have a persistent and growing feminization of poverty.

In the Famine Zone, Preventing History From Repeating Itself

Margaret Aguirre | Posted 11.09.2011 | Impact
Margaret Aguirre

I was in Ethiopia during the "global food crisis" in 2008, and witnessed a tremendous amount of starvation, pain and suffering. And yet, that crisis was not nearly as severe as what's happening today.

A "Hidden Emergency" in Plain Sight: Nairobi's Slums in Freefall

Elizabeth Wright | Posted 10.16.2011 | Impact
Elizabeth Wright

In Kenya's capital city of Nairobi, two-thirds of the population live far below the poverty line in sprawling urban slums. Hunger is an everyday reality here.

Statistical Numbing: Why Millions Can Die, and We Don't Care

David Ropeik | Posted 10.15.2011 | World
David Ropeik

The profound and sobering truth is that our perceptions are an inextricable blend of reason and subjective emotion. One death will always move us more than one million.