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Eating Disorders: Media influence by Clueless C. Health Maven Posted Wed 24 Feb 2010 12:00am Eating Disorders Awareness Week: Media and Garment Industry influences. Vanity sizing, also known as size inflation is used to refer to the phenomenon of ready...: Trying to attain the "perfect" body according to the media requires retouching.  No wonder most women want to lose weight...some will DIE to get it. Read on »
Eating Disorders - Media Influence by laallen Posted Wed 04 Nov 2009 10:04pm Eating Disorders - Media Influence on Body Image I ran across this article while researching bulimia and eating disorder treatments. It says everything that I want to say about the media and its influence on young women and the obsession to have the "perfect body". I wish I could reach out to those suffering from eating disorders and just convince Read on »
Male Eating Disorders, Part 4: Media Influence by Dr. Sari Shepphird Doctor of PhilosophyHealth Maven Posted Thu 10 Dec 2009 4:07pm in the Pro-Ana and Pro-Mia movements (see Treatment Notes dated May 14, 2008). Experts and non-experts alike have long debated the media's influence on eating disorders. Recent... disorders. It is time to expand our discussion of media influence on body image and eating disorders to include the effect of ideal images on both females and males. The thin ideal Read on »
Male Eating Disorders, Part 4: Media Influence by Dr. Sari Shepphird Doctor of PhilosophyHealth Maven Posted Thu 10 Dec 2009 12:00am . Muscle dysmorphia...steroid use...unhealthy diet habits...eating disorders. It is time to expand our discussion of media influence on body image and eating disorders to include... slogan by those in the Pro-Ana and Pro-Mia movements (see Treatment Notes dated May 14, 2008 ). Experts and non-experts alike have long debated the media's influence on eating Read on »
Eating Disorders & The Media by Arielle B. Patient Expert Posted Wed 27 Oct 2010 12:00am This week's topic is The Media & Eating Disorders. This has been talked about many times over, and I've spoken about it/written about it before, but today's video touches on it again. In this video, I mention my feelings on the media, how it affects me, and what we can do to keep negative effects of the media at bay. Read on »
Does the media play a role in eating disorders? by Carrie A. Patient ExpertHealth Maven Posted Mon 16 Nov 2009 10:00pm a role in eating disorders?" is usually asked in a sense of "Does media play a role in causing eating disorders?" And that answer, I would have to say, is pretty minimal. Media... causes schizophrenia. Or, for that matter, that the media caused my eating disorder. Much of the debate about media and eating disorders boils down to this: do eating Read on »
Disordered eating and eating disorders by Carrie A. Patient ExpertHealth Maven Posted Tue 15 Sep 2009 10:02pm The Twitter-sphere has been discussing the difference between disordered eating and eating disorders (specifically EDNOS ) today. I haven't responded, in part because I like... that I don't necessarily have all the answers, but that these are answers that are worth having. To start forming these answers, we first need to define "disordered eating Read on »
Parsing disordered eating from an eating disorder by Laura Patient Expert Posted Fri 26 Feb 2010 5:08am One of my blog's commenters beautifully and concisely described the difference between disordered eating and an eating disorder: Anonymous said... Most people who..., and their biology responds in exactly the opposite way, signalling them to eat less and less. The first group has disordered eating. The second has an eating disorder. The difference is clear Read on »
Blurring the Lines: Eating Disorders and Disordered Eating by Melissa H. Patient Expert Posted Mon 10 Nov 2008 9:25pm When I began blogging, I always considered being a disordered eater a separate entity from having an eating disorder. After all, every woman seems to be a “disordered.... Accepting my obsession (my disordered eating behaviors) as a problem was half the battle. Healing through blogging and professional therapy would be the second. In truth, for well Read on »
My Disordered Eating Past by Charlotte H. Patient Expert Posted Thu 04 Feb 2010 7:38pm life. Two cousins were bulimic. Two more spent time in eating disorder clinics. And then of course there was the media - thin movie starseven thinner fashion models. Even my... went through me like a cold shiverthe same way it does any time I hear about a eating disordered woman who loses the battle. So I did what any intelligent stalker-type does Read on »