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Do Tell: What Was Your Mother's Relationship to Food?
Did you "thin-herit" food issues from your mother?
According to a poll conducted by teen magazine Sugar, girls ages 12 - 18 said that their mother's eating and/or dieting habits and views on food were the biggest influence on their own relationship to food. It was found that if a mom diets, she's twice as likely to have a daughter with an eating disorder.
Ralph Lauren Rep Apologizes For Photoshopping Model
When controversy erupted over an image for Ralph Lauren's Blue Label — model Filippa Hamilton's body appeared to have been digitally retouched, so that she looked bobble-headed and emaciated — I was convinced that the image wasn't the original ad. I was sure that it had been retouched by one of those "thinspirational" proanorexia blogs you hear about which feature models Photoshopped, so that they look like Holocaust victims.
Wow, was I wrong.
Men Who Struggle With Eating Disorders
Nineteen-year-old Chris Hardy recently shared his struggles with anorexia with the BBC. Chris said that limiting his food intake gave him a sense of achievement after he experienced upheavals like his parents' divorce, moving homes, and changing schools. Now that Chris has sought help to fight the disorder, he's urging other men to do the same.
Book Bag: Wintergirls
“I bit the days off in rows. . .
Pro-Anorexia Groups Masquerade as Support on Facebook
Pro-ana, or pro-anorexia, sites have been infuriating the Internet for years by proclaiming eating disorders are not disorders at all, but lifestyle choices. Just like my entire high school, they eventually made their way to Facebook, but according to Newsweek, the social-networking site du jour isn't having it. Facebook regularly deletes groups, citing promotion of self-harm and harm to others.
If tabloids were about muppets...
Cookie Monster dishes about his life, his loves, and his plans for a cookie-binging free future: "Me will always be Cookie Monster, but me will no longer be a cookie monster."
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Dear Poll: Have You, or Someone You Know, Ever Been Affected by an Eating Disorder?
This week is National Eating Disorder Awareness Week, and since as many as 10 million females and one million males in the US are suffering from an eating disorder, I'm thankful that we have resources such as the National Eating Disorders Association. Their main goal is to raise awareness, educate, support, and eventually help eradicate eating disorders altogether.
Body image issues are common all over the world and they can easily manifest in an eating disorder so I'm curious to see how many of you have either suffered from one yourself, or known someone that has.
Handle This: Your Friend Has an Eating Disorder
You've started to spend time with a close family friend from childhood that you lost touch with. The only thing that's changed besides your age is her appearance — she's sickly thin.
When she confides in you that she has an eating disorder, you immediately want to help her.
You Asked: How Can I Help Her?
Dear Sugar--
My workmate/friend is severely bulimic. She has dropped 3 dress sizes in less than six months by throwing up every single meal. She will eat a cup of instant soup, calmly put it down and then openly go to the ladies room to vomit.
You Asked: My Boyfriend Thinks I'm Fat
Dear Sugar,
I entered a relationship with my current boyfriend while I was recovering from a long-term eating disorder. I never really went into detail with him, but I did tell him I was gaining weight to be healthier. I went from 80 pounds at five feet, one inch at the very beginning of our relationship to 92 pounds now.
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