January 25, 2012
Picky eating could soon be added to a medically recognized list of mental illnesses and eating disorders. This kind of eating disorder isn’t as simple as not eating your broccoli. This is for people whose eating habits interfere with having a functional life. For some, “avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder” (ARFID) comes from a fear of ...
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November 30, 2011
Photoshopping is dangerous. Not only does it show us a false view of reality, it has led to eating disorders in men, women and children. It causes people to compare their bodies to something that doesn’t exist. Fortunately, there may soon be a tool that shows us just how fake photoshopped pictures are. This tool would tell ...
October 13, 2011
In the name of a flawless face and a perfectly packaged product, Photoshop comes to the rescue. But in the process the picture is altered and unrecognizable from the original. In one (now famous) ad, Julia Roberts no longer looks like the woman we know and love despite the age lines that now appear on ...
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September 23, 2011
Come on everyone! Let’s have a giggle about anorexia! Clearly all of the girls that die every year deserve to be mocked in a costume that pokes fun at their disease. Well, obviously not. But, this is apparently what the creator of “Anna Rexia,” the Halloween costume that is skin tight and features a painted ...
September 16, 2011
As fashion week is upon us, it is easy to revel in the beauty of the fabrics, shoes, and hair pieces. But with fashion week also comes the fun of watching the impossibly thin models strutting down the runway. It all seems so desirable when looking in from the outside. But as new reports reveal, ...
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eating disorders,
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August 10, 2011
I love Kate Moss. There. I said it. I’m out and proud with my love of Kate. She is constantly accused of being a drug-taking, slutty, bad mother and now her latest heinous crime is to install a gym and basement kitchen in her London mansion. She will be spending her own money on the ...
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slut shaming,
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August 4, 2011
Anorexics and bulimics are getting younger. Preteens? 8 year olds? 5 year olds? Sadly, yes, to all of the above. Hospitals in the UK have pooled their information from the past couple of years to determine the amount of eating disorder patients they had seen as a whole. Almost 600 cases found the patient under ...
July 5, 2011
Usually a good night out involves talking, laughing, and let’s not forget eating. So as to not spoil a good night, you stuff your face and then when you get home you face the guilt. Unfortunately, a great number of women are pigging out in public and starving in private. Just like anorexics and momorexics, ...
June 17, 2011
Pregnancy is a time where women should be able to pig out without the guilt. It’s dinner for two every night! But a dangerous new trend reflects that the pressure to be thin is affecting moms. Celebrities like Victoria Beckham, Rachel Zoe and reality star Bethenny Frankel are starving themselves during and post-pregnancy in an ...
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June 17, 2011
As this series has shown, when it comes to almost every common mental disorder or disease, women take the cake as most affected as a group. To recap the numbers, women suffer from clinical anxiety and depression almost twice as much as men do and also overpower in numbers when it comes to eating disorders, ...