Former national champ Jennifer Sey exposes the anorexia and sexual and mental abuse that are rampant in elite women's gymnastics.
By Julia Wallace Apr 23, 2008
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Round 15,687, now with anorexia, bulimia and diet pill abuse.
By Katharine Mieszkowski
December 2, 2008
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"Calorie restricted" eaters have visions of eternal health dancing in their heads. But is life without pecan pie really worth living?
By Rebecca Traister
November 22, 2006
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A new book says that teen girls aren't the drug-addicted, eating-disordered monsters that the media makes them out to be.
By Corrie Pikul
April 20, 2005
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Author Betsy Lerner explains why 20 years of therapy wasn't enough to save her from food addiction and manic-depression.
By Suzy Hansen
February 21, 2003
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In Britain, there's an increase in kids under 10 being hospitalized for eating disorders.
By Sarah Hepola
May 8, 2008
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Self magazine finds that 75 percent of women have an unhealthy relationship with food.
By Tracy Clark-Flory
April 25, 2008
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John Prescott's recent revelation reminds us that eating disorders aren't just a female thing.
By Kate Harding
April 21, 2008
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The fluffy 1980s teen fiction series updates itself -- by making its heroines even skinnier.
By Sarah Hepola
March 28, 2008
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The British Fashion Council recommends that girls under 16 be banned from the fashion runway.
By Carol Lloyd
July 12, 2007
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Should the fashion industry require that models meet a minimum body mass index?
By Tracy Clark-Flory
January 10, 2007
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A new online program hopes to prevent eating disorders among undergrads. But do Internet-based interventions stand a chance?
By Page Rockwell
November 1, 2006
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More on interpreting that eating disorder study.
By Sarah Goldstein
March 16, 2006
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A new study finds more than half the risk for developing anorexia is genetic.
By Sarah Goldstein
March 15, 2006
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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.
By Amy Benfer
March 25, 2002
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A Web-based pro-anorexia movement provides a bizarre support network for starving girls.
By Janelle Brown
July 23, 2001
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My mother always told me I was fat. Then I realized that she was afraid she was.
By Anne Burt
December 5, 2000
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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?
By Suzy Hansen
October 9, 2000
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I thought losing weight would get me the love I sought. Instead, I got a hospital room and a plate of spaghetti.
By Evelyn Strauss
September 13, 2000
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Raw carrot abuse is nothing to laugh at.
By Mary Roach
January 28, 2000
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Savvy about the media, steeped in pop psychology, today's kids have problems the experts still don't understand.
By Alissa Quart
September 16, 1999
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"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.
By Lillie Wade
September 15, 1999
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A mockumentary about a Midwestern teen beauty pageant turns out to be the guiltiest of this summer's guilty pleasures.
By Mary Elizabeth Williams
July 23, 1999
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She dreamed of being immortalized in literature -- until he showed her his manuscript.
By Abby Ellin
July 6, 1999
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May 20, 1999