Eating Disorders

"Why do these men want to coach little girls?" "Why do these men want to coach little girls?"

Former national champ Jennifer Sey exposes the anorexia and sexual and mental abuse that are rampant in elite women's gymnastics.
  • Let's beat up on Britney Spears!

    Round 15,687, now with anorexia, bulimia and diet pill abuse.
  • 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?
  • 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.
  • Bingeing and learning

    Author Betsy Lerner explains why 20 years of therapy wasn't enough to save her from food addiction and manic-depression.
  • Childhood, a time of carefree play ... and crash diets?

    In Britain, there's an increase in kids under 10 being hospitalized for eating disorders.
  • Study: Most women "disordered eaters"

    Self magazine finds that 75 percent of women have an unhealthy relationship with food.
  • Old, fat, male ... and bulimic?

    John Prescott's recent revelation reminds us that eating disorders aren't just a female thing.
  • Sweet Valley High goes on a diet

    The fluffy 1980s teen fiction series updates itself -- by making its heroines even skinnier.
  • Carding on the catwalk?

    The British Fashion Council recommends that girls under 16 be banned from the fashion runway.
  • Regulating skinny chic

    Should the fashion industry require that models meet a minimum body mass index?
  • "Student Bodies," student selves

    A new online program hopes to prevent eating disorders among undergrads. But do Internet-based interventions stand a chance?
  • Anorexia determined by genes, Take 2

    More on interpreting that eating disorder study.
  • Anorexia determined by genes

    A new study finds more than half the risk for developing anorexia is genetic.
  • 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.
  • "The winner dies"

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

    My mother always told me I was fat. Then I realized that she was afraid she was.
  • Gross-out girls

    Young female novelists now take us, literally, into the bowels of their heroines, but does all this bodily frankness carve out a bold new honesty or dredge up the same old insecurities?
  • Facing the plate

    I thought losing weight would get me the love I sought. Instead, I got a hospital room and a plate of spaghetti.
  • Turning orange

    Raw carrot abuse is nothing to laugh at.
  • Sells like Teen Spirit

    Savvy about the media, steeped in pop psychology, today's kids have problems the experts still don't understand.
  • Backtalk

    "Ophelia Speaks," a book by teens for teens, talks back to adults who think they know what's up. This teen says it doesn't speak to her.
  • "Drop Dead Gorgeous"

    A mockumentary about a Midwestern teen beauty pageant turns out to be the guiltiest of this summer's guilty pleasures.
  • The pissed-off muse

    She dreamed of being immortalized in literature -- until he showed her his manuscript.
  • Eating disorders in Fiji linked to increased TV

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