Here you will find articles discussing the various ways culture and media can affect both the development of an eating disorder and eating disorder recovery.
Links to various articles in the news and other websites and blogs representing cultural voices will be posted here along with commentary.
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*pix Marilyn Monroe
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If you are watching your calories and nutritional intake, be careful in restaurants. Be sure to use your common sense as you evaluate the information on the menu next to your favorite foods. Tufts University researchers are helping us keep track of what's right and what's not.
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Please be aware of risks, scams and dangerous profiteering liars.
I just learned, in the Minot Daily News, about the existence of the Healthy Weight Network's Slim Chance Awards for 2009. It's not so great to win this award, but it's a real eye opener and maybe a life saver for people who have been using diet programs and drugs that don't work or could be harmful.
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If you have an eating disorder you know that if you are in the middle of a binge or purge or running on the treadmill, you are not going to answer the phone. However, researchers continue to attempt to quanitfy prevalence of eating disorders, in this case, by phone.
The researchers conducted a phone survey of 1,500 urban women, most of them nonsmokers and university graduates. The average age was 31.
None of the women was classified as anorexic, and only 1 percent met the criteria for bulimia (bingeing and purging). However, almost 14 percent reported binge eating one to seven times per month, while nearly 3 percent occasionally used vomiting, laxatives, or diuretics for weight control.
- Brittany Murphy: some anorexia thoughts
- All You Can Eat Buffets: how to survive them
- Huge fat butt? or Enslaved by fashion industry?
- Manipulative Weight Loss Seminars Exposed
- Eating disorder recovery and using "to do" lists
- Michael Jackson: Anorexia?
- The Path to Life Beyond Eating Disorders
- Susan Boyle: a gift to us all!
- Eating Disorders in Women over 40 (or 50 or 60 or 70 or 80+)
- Mindless Munching, Eating Disorder Recovery, Economic Consequences, Getting Better Anyway