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Songs About Eating Disorders

Songs about eating disorders from Filter, Silverchair, Alanis Morissette, Saves the Day, and Manic Street Preachers.

137 comments    entertainment music video
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A Practical Guide to Improving Your Body Image

The key to feeling better about yourself is not to change your body, as the diet industry would have you believe, but rather to change the way you feel about your body.

8 comments    health advice how to
A Magpie or Pica (public domain).94

Eating Everything but Food is called Pica.

A Magpie or Pica (public domain).PICA comes from the Latin word that means magpie, whch is a bird that is known for a big appetite to eat anything and everything. Here's what kids sometimes eat of they...

52 comments    health diet eating
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Male Anorexia

Eating disorders such as anorexia are not just a "girl's problem". Eating disorders affect both sexes. The causes, effects and treatment are similar. The main difference is that it is more difficult to...

28 comments    health food diet
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Womens Health: Weight Loss

Oh, all right, I freely admit it. I am the poster girl for fad diets - any crazy, crash diet that promises rapid weight loss. It doesn't matter if the claims are improbably ludicrous...and, to be truthful,...

104 comments    health women shopping
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Sleep Talking

It has been several years since I've been asked about this particular condition, known as somniloquy or sleep taking. I have done this myself in the past on occasion, after a particularly tiring, long day at...

21 comments    mental health sleep disorders
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Top Ten Worst Things to Say to Someone With an Eating Disorder

As someone with insight, I've compiled a list of the top ten worst things to say to someone with an eating disorder, both from my own experience, and horror stories from other eating-disordered women. Some of the worst offenders to an anorexic might sound benign to you at first read, but once you understand how your loved one hears things, you'll find your relationship vastly improved. I hate to say it, but this is one case where it's not the thought that counts.

25 comments    health food eating
Are your Teens at Risk?90

Teens at Risk

Are your Teens at Risk? Ah... the teenage years. Time to expand your wings a bit and test the boundaries with your parents. Unfortunately, many teens take the "experimental" years too far, resulting in...

11 comments    parenting drugs alcohol
Reading these books can help you understand eating disorders.89

Books About Eating Disorders

There are many books on eating disorders: dozens of true-life narratives, hundreds of workbooks, thousands of essays. These are my favorites, those that provided the most insight for me, and provide a cross-section of the types of literature available on the subject today.

12 comments    health family how to
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Anorexia

The woman in the images is Isabelle Caro an ex model suffering from anorexia for the past 15 years. Isabelle who weights 31 kilos, appears now on the Italian streets on billboards and on magazines as...

22 comments    health education women
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