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All You Can Eat: An Essay on Raising a Daughter with Eating Disorders
May 2010 - “What do you want to eat?” my husband, Ned, asks our daughter, Lisa. We are seated at the table of Vung Tau, a Vietnamese restaurant in San Jose, staring at a menu that goes on for pages...
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HUNGRY: A mother and daughter fight Anorexia
August 2009 - Sheila Himmel is a food writer. She loves French fries, raspberry meringues and warm brioche, reveling in food’s texture, taste and tantalizing appeal. She was the restaurant critic for the San Jose Mercury News. She's a...
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Exclusive! Plus-Size Model Crystal Renn Talks to StyleList About Her New Book 'Hungry' and the Fashion Industry's Obsession with Size Zero
August 2009 - When Crystal Renn aspired to be a model as a 14-year-old in Mississippi, an agent (not from Ford) told her she had to lose 9 inches off of her hips first...
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Dying to Be Thin - Dr. Phil Explores Eating Disorders
May 2010 - Did you know that anorexia nervosa is affecting young girls and boys at an ever-increasing rate, and that the...
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Eating Disorders from Secondhand TV?
January 2011 - A provocative new study finds that limiting television exposure in our children is not enough to stop its influence. According to Harvard Medical School researchers, indirect media exposure...
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A Mother’s Grieves by Making a Film about Bulimia
April 2010 - Andrew Avrin sits on a beige couch in a nondescript room, a fruit still-life partly visible on the wall behind him, twisting his fingers while, off-camera, an unseen interviewer prompts him to talk...
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I Am Worth the Weight - Model Bares Journey from Waif to 'Big' Winner
September 2009 - When she was 16, Crystal Renn signed a $250,000 modeling contract and moved to the city. But after starving herself for years to stay at 95 pounds, she gave it all up to become a plus-size model...
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Obesity and Eating Disorders: Are They Close Relatives?
October 2010 - Research on obesity and eating disorders is converging. Among other findings, studies indicate that brain circuits involved in reward or pleasure may also be involved in obesity and...
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Eating Disorder Cutoffs Miss Some of Sickest Patients, Stanford/Packard Study Finds
April 2010 - Diagnostic cutoffs for anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa may be too strict, a study from the Stanford University School of Medicine and Lucile Packard Children's Hospital has found...
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At last: New York Fashion Week caters to full-figured women with an all plus-size show
September 2010 - File this one under: It is seriously about time. Next week in Manhattan, a group of American designers will buck the tradition that associates fashion solely with the alarmingly thin...
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Healthy vs. "Normal" Eating—Then and Now
September 2010 - In the three decades I've taught and written about eating issues, I've noticed a sea change, not only in the eating habits of Americans, but in our orientation toward food, weight, and health...
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Anorexia nearly killed my wife
January 2008 - Psychiatric wards are places where they take sharp objects and shoelaces from patients. My wife lived in one for two weeks, when doctors feared she was a danger to herself...
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Hope for Eating Disorders Victims
April 2010 - In a healthy person, the mind and the body work together dynamically. But what happens when your brain turns against your body? As any victim of anorexia nervosa can attest, the consequences are both...
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NBC’s Today Show Discusses Pro-Ana Websites
August 2010 - Dr. Nancy Snyderman interviews four recovered women who share the harm these websites can inflict on someone struggling with their eating disorder...
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Rate of Eating Disorders in Kids Keeps Rising
November 2010 - Eating disorders have risen steadily in children and teens over the last few decades, with some of the sharpest increases occurring in boys and minority youths, according to a new report...
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Demi Lovato to Leave Hit Show, Opens Up on Bulimia, Cutting Issues
April 2011 - Teenage Disney darling Demi Lovato has announced she is leaving her hit tween comedy, "Sonny With a Chance," to focus on her music career.The eighteen-year-old Lovato sang her way to the top...
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Brain Gets 'High' from Junk Food
March 2010 - The same brain pathways that make people addicted to drugs also addict them to high calorie foods, according to a recent US study...
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Life-size Barbie gets real women talking
April 2011 - Barbie’s not just a doll.In Galia Slayen’s hands, the iconic blond plaything has morphed into a life-size representation of what an eating disorder looks like.Four years ago...
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Tweens Convene for Learning, Support on Body Image
October 2009 — When 12-year-old Chloe Harris sees a large-screen image of a stick-thin model in a new ad campaign, the seventh-grader from Alexandria, Va., says the picture makes her "feel sick" because the model looks so "unnormal"...
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In Fighting Anorexia, Recovery Is Elusive
April 2011 - Dr. Suzanne Dooley-Hash believes that she will never fully recover from the anorexia that has plagued her since she was 15 years old. For many years, she did not take laxatives constantly to...
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