Eating Disorders

No more waifs on the runway?

Fashion insiders fight anorexia with "a national manifesto of self-regulation."

Tracy Clark-Flory Friday, Dec 8, 2006 10:13 PM UTC 20
Life Broadsheet, Eating Disorders

Diet your way to a long, miserable life!

"Calorie restricted" eaters have visions of eternal health dancing in their heads. But is life without pecan pie really worth living?

Rebecca Traister Wednesday, Nov 22, 2006 12:18 PM UTC 149
Life Thanksgiving, Eating Disorders

Anorexia claims another model

Twenty-one-year-old, 88-pound Ana Carolina Reston reportedly subsisted on apples and tomatoes.

Tracy Clark-Flory Friday, Nov 17, 2006 8:29 PM UTC 34
Life Broadsheet, Eating Disorders

“Student Bodies,” student selves

A new online program hopes to prevent eating disorders among undergrads. But do Internet-based interventions stand a chance?

Page Rockwell Wednesday, Nov 1, 2006 1:00 PM UTC 12
Life Education, Broadsheet

Madrid to models: Here, have some tapas

Super-skinniest are banned from Fashion Week catwalk.

Lynn Harris Wednesday, Sep 13, 2006 4:15 PM UTC 33
Life Broadsheet, Fashion

Size-eight women make freak appearance on runway

The Australian fashion world is shaken after fleshy models strut during Fashion Week.

Tracy Clark-Flory Friday, Sep 8, 2006 10:11 PM UTC 38
Life Broadsheet, Eating Disorders

News coverage of “pro-anorexia” Web sites

Does it inform the public -- or put girls at risk?

Lynn Harris Wednesday, Apr 26, 2006 5:47 PM UTC
Life CNN, Broadsheet, Eating Disorders

Anorexia determined by genes, Take 2

More on interpreting that eating disorder study.

Sarah Goldstein Thursday, Mar 16, 2006 2:57 PM UTC
Life Broadsheet, Eating Disorders

Anorexia determined by genes

A new study finds more than half the risk for developing anorexia is genetic.

Sarah Goldstein Wednesday, Mar 15, 2006 10:50 PM UTC
Life Broadsheet, Eating Disorders

Eating disorders in the spotlight at Sundance

"Girl culture" photographer Lauren Greenfield premieres a devastating new documentary.

Sarah Karnasiewicz Thursday, Jan 26, 2006 2:14 PM UTC
Life Broadsheet, Eating Disorders

‘Tis the season to obsess about food

Thanksgiving yams, Chanukah latkes, Christmas cookies ... for me, they all add up to a holiday-size serving of self-hatred.

Ayelet Waldman Monday, Dec 12, 2005 11:19 AM UTC 46
Life Eating Disorders

Newsweek’s anorexic cover girl

Is she too glam a poster girl for a dangerous teenage plague?

Rebecca Traister Friday, Dec 2, 2005 7:00 PM UTC 17
Life Broadsheet, Eating Disorders

The girls are all right

A new book says that teen girls aren't the drug-addicted, eating-disordered monsters that the media makes them out to be.

Corrie Pikul Wednesday, Apr 20, 2005 8:01 PM UTC
Life Eating Disorders

Hair apparent

I told myself that coloring my gray streaks would somehow be a self-betrayal. Then I got a hair makeover, and suddenly, I'm the babe outside that I feel like inside.

Maura Kelly Tuesday, Mar 30, 2004 11:54 PM UTC
Life Eating Disorders

Wasting disease

I ate nothing but cottage cheese and rice cakes. I was a set of bones hunkered over a tiny saucer. What was I feeling? What was I trying, so desperately, not to feel?

Caroline Knapp Thursday, May 22, 2003 10:15 PM UTC
Life Eating Disorders

The hunger artist

Caroline Knapp's final book is both the smartest anorexia memoir ever written and a fascinating journey along the tortuous pathways of female desire.

Laura Miller Thursday, May 22, 2003 7:00 PM UTC
Entertainment Eating Disorders

Bingeing and learning

Author Betsy Lerner explains why 20 years of therapy wasn't enough to save her from food addiction and manic-depression.

Suzy Hansen Friday, Feb 21, 2003 7:25 PM UTC
Life Eating Disorders

“The Fasting Girl” by Michelle Stacey

Victorian America's foremost anorexic became hugely famous for surviving for 12 years on a few spoonfuls of milk and a banana.

Kate Bolick Wednesday, May 1, 2002 10:21 PM UTC
Entertainment Eating Disorders, Books

Fat kids, silent parents

Hectored by experts and afraid of hurting their kids' self-esteem, parents of overweight children remain silent -- as the nation faces a youthful obesity crisis.

Amy Benfer Monday, Mar 25, 2002 11:47 PM UTC
Life Eating Disorders

“The winner dies”

A Web-based pro-anorexia movement provides a bizarre support network for starving girls.

Janelle Brown Monday, Jul 23, 2001 7:23 PM UTC
Life Eating Disorders

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