Pro-Anorexia Vids Draw Ire

By Heather McPherson, Newser User

Posted Aug 11, 2007 6:42 AM CDT

(Newser) – Advocates for people with eating disorders are calling on social networking sites like MySpace and FaceBook to bar "thinspiration" videos—movies of anorexics showing off their alarmingly underweight bodies to encourage others to emulate them. One MySpace pro-anorexia group with over 1,000 members... Read full story »

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