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Childhood, a time of carefree play ... and crash diets?: In Britain, there's an increase in kids under 10 being hospitalized for eating disorders.; Sarah Hepola May 8, 2008
Study: Most women "disordered eaters": Self magazine finds that 75 percent of women have an unhealthy relationship with food.; Tracy Clark-Flory Apr 25, 2008
"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.; By Julia Wallace Apr 23, 2008
Old, fat, male ... and bulimic?: John Prescott's recent revelation reminds us that eating disorders aren't just a female thing.; Kate Harding Apr 21, 2008
Sweet Valley High goes on a diet: The fluffy 1980s teen fiction series updates itself -- by making its heroines even skinnier.; Sarah Hepola Mar 28, 2008
Carding on the catwalk?: The British Fashion Council recommends that girls under 16 be banned from the fashion runway.; Carol Lloyd Jul 12, 2007
Regulating skinny chic: Should the fashion industry require that models meet a minimum body mass index?; Tracy Clark-Flory Jan 10, 2007
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?; By Rebecca Traister Nov 22, 2006
"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 Nov 1, 2006
Anorexia determined by genes, Take 2: More on interpreting that eating disorder study.; Sarah Goldstein Mar 16, 2006
Anorexia determined by genes: A new study finds more than half the risk for developing anorexia is genetic.; Sarah Goldstein Mar 15, 2006
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.; By Corrie Pikul Apr 20, 2005
Bingeing and learning: Author Betsy Lerner explains why 20 years of therapy wasn't enough to save her from food addiction and manic-depression.; By Suzy Hansen Feb 21, 2003
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.; By Amy Benfer Mar 25, 2002
"The winner dies": A Web-based pro-anorexia movement provides a bizarre support network for starving girls.; By Janelle Brown Jul 23, 2001
Fat like mommy: My mother always told me I was fat. Then I realized that she was afraid she was.; By Anne Burt Dec 5, 2000
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?; By Suzy Hansen Oct 9, 2000
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.; By Evelyn Strauss Sep 13, 2000
Turning orange: Raw carrot abuse is nothing to laugh at.; By Mary Roach Jan 28, 2000
Sells like Teen Spirit: Savvy about the media, steeped in pop psychology, today's kids have problems the experts still don't understand.; By Alissa Quart Sep 16, 1999
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.; By Lillie Wade Sep 15, 1999
"Drop Dead Gorgeous": A mockumentary about a Midwestern teen beauty pageant turns out to be the guiltiest of this summer's guilty pleasures.; By Mary Elizabeth Williams Jul 23, 1999
The pissed-off muse: She dreamed of being immortalized in literature -- until he showed her his manuscript.; By Abby Ellin Jul 6, 1999
Eating disorders in Fiji linked to increased TV: May 20, 1999
Size matters: In her engaging memoir "Wake Up, I'm Fat!" Camryn Manheim of "The Practice" reveals how she learned to throw her weight around.; By Joyce Millman May 17, 1999

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