December 5th, 2007
I just saw a documentary on BBC America called “Super Skinny Me: The Race To Size Zero,” the first show in a series about body image. In the documentary, two healthy female journalists (BMI’s around 22 and 21 respectively) go on crash diets made popular by celebrities to lose as much weight as possible in […]
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October 24th, 2007
A researcher in Iowa is studying an often-missed eating disorder similar to bulimia called purging disorder.
Sufferers often purge, or make themselves sick, after eating small to normal amounts of food. That’s different from bulimia in that bulimics usual binge on hundreds to thousands of calories before purging. The sufferers are also of normal weight.
The […]
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