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NEWS ABOUT: anorexia

anorexia stories: 24 news summaries

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Pro-Anorexia Vids Draw Ire

Aug 11, 07 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 boasts that it wants "... More »

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social networking • YouTube • MySpace • anorexia • Facebook • eating disorder

Nicole Richie: We're Pregnant

'Simple Life' star is nearly 4 months along

Aug 1, 07 5:48 AM CDT
(Newser) - Sometime-actress Nicole Richie ended weeks of speculation yesterday by confirming that she is almost 4 months pregnant by her rocker boyfriend, Good Charlotte frontman Joel Madden. "Yes I am. We are," Richie told ABC's Diane Sawyer. Richie is headed to jail for 4 days sometime in the next... More »

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pregnancy • anorexia • drunk driving • celebrity • Nicole Richie • Joel Madden • celebrity pregnancy

Britain Bans
Tiny Models

Girls under 16 chased off the catwalk as UK attempts to fight size-zero modeling

Jul 8, 07 5:18 PM CDT
(Newser) - The British fashion industry has nixed runway and photoshoot models under 16, in a response to controversies over uber-thin girls literally dying to model. Two South American models died from malnutrition and anorexia last year, piquing concerns about the influence of "size-zero" modeling on young girls. The industry did... More »

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fashion • health • anorexia • eating disorder • model

Men With Eating Disorders Lack Treatment

Up to 25% of anorexics and 40% of bulemics
are male

Apr 17, 07 8:46 AM CDT
(Newser) - Men affected by eating disorders have few options—with research, diagnosis, and treatment all geared towards women. A new study reveals that a quarter of all anorexics in the US are men, as are up to 40% of all binge eaters. "Society sees this as a girl's disease,"... More »

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bulimia • health • disease • anorexia • men • treatment • eating disorder

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