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1 Are Eating Disorders Heritable? A closer look at personality and genetics.
April 2012 - Most people think of eating disorders, such as bulimia and anorexia, as the result of contemporary beauty ideals fabricated by the media and the fashion industry... 		18
2 Israel’s Skinny Model Ban: New Law Requires Body Mass Index of 18.5 or a Doctor’s Note
The fashion industry has long debated the use of ultrathin models. Now lawmakers in Israel are attempting to ban them. 		60
3 Boys dying to be thin: the new face of anorexia
February 2012 - Lindsey Avon and her 28-year-old husband Victor have been together for 10 years. But when Victor decided to lose some weight in college, Lindsey had no idea what he was really going through. It wasn’t until Victor checked himself into an inpatient eating disorder treatment center that Lindsey, 29, realized her then-boyfriend was fatally anorexic. 		169
4 Dara Torres, Brandi Chastain talk eating disorders, body image issues
February 2012 - Read as Dara Torres and Brandi Chastain, two of the most recognizable names (and bodies) in sports share their struggles and learn how sports helped them get healthy. 		186
5 Starving to be Thin Impacts Men, Too
February 2012 - Sure you’ve heard of young women starving themselves to be thin. But what about men? A growing number of men and boys are being diagnosed with eating disorders...

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6 Like mother, like daughter: Eating disorders run in families
February 2012 - Deborah Belfatto worried that her daughter might have an eating disorder when the 12-year-old eliminated all fat from her diet and started getting very thin... 		198
7 Interview with Darryl Roberts-director of America the Beautiful
November 2011 - (CNN) -- At 6'3" and 277 pounds, Darryl Roberts had a body mass index of 34.6. Anything over 30.0 on the BMI scale is considered obese, and his doctor warned him that his blood pressure was... 		149
8 Eating Disorders a New Front in Insurance Fight
October 2011 - People with eating disorders like anorexia have opened up a new battleground in the insurance wars, testing the boundaries of laws mandating equivalent coverage for mental illnesses...

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9 Eating-disorder patients battle insurers over care
September 2011 - When Jeanene Harlick's weight dropped to 65 percent of normal, her doctors recommended the San Mateo woman go into an intensive residential treatment facility that specialized in...
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10 Court: Blue Shield must pay for anorexia treatment
August 2011 - LOS ANGELES—An appeals court decision has ordered Blue Shield of California to pay for a policyholder's anorexia treatment, calling on insurers to treat mental illness with... 		299
11 Eating disorders are difficult, complicated health issues
June 2011 - Brianna Chase has been diagnosed with onset osteoporosis, a bone disease that carries an increased risk of fractures. Most commonly, osteoporosis affects women after menopause and... 		280
12 Stanford program takes aim at eating disorders
June 2011 - Kristin began starving herself in eighth grade."I had low self-esteem," she said. "I was by no means fat, but my body developed before my other girlfriends'. I got it in my head that if I lost weight...
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13 How Brain Sees the 'Big Picture' May Affect Self-Image
June 2011 - Body dysmorphic disorder, an illness that causes people to see themselves as disfigured or ugly, is linked to an abnormality in how visual information is processed, and the image distortion... 		267
14 A Day in the Life of an Anorexic: An Aide to Those Who Can't Identify
May 2011 - Anorexia is a very hard for people to understand. Many see it as a harmful lifestyle choice. The truth is, it is a mental disorder and not any more a choice than depression or schizophrenia is. Some... 		405
15 EDC Appeal Against Blue Shield Seeks Mental Health Parity for Anorexia
May 2011 - After two decades of battling se- vere anorexia that often landed her in the emergency room, Jeanene Harlick finally entered an intensive treatment program at the recommendation of her doctor in 2006... 		442

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