http://dir.salon.com/topics/eating_disorders/?source=rss&aim=eating_disorders en-us Copyright 2007 Salon.com. Tue, 15 Sep 2009 03:09:00 PDT By Kate Harding Tue, 15 Sep 2009 03:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2009/09/15/crystal_renn/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2009/09/15/crystal_renn/index.html?source=rss Crystal Renn almost starved to death to be in Vogue. She finally got there, after she embraced her natural curves By Katharine Mieszkowski Tue, 15 Sep 2009 03:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/2008/12/02/britney/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/2008/12/02/britney/index.html?source=rss Round 15,687, now with anorexia, bulimia and diet pill abuse. By Julia Wallace Tue, 15 Sep 2009 03:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2008/04/23/chalked_up/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2008/04/23/chalked_up/index.html?source=rss Former national champ Jennifer Sey exposes the anorexia and sexual and mental abuse that are rampant in elite women's gymnastics. By Rebecca Traister Tue, 15 Sep 2009 03:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2006/11/22/cr_diets/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2006/11/22/cr_diets/index.html?source=rss "Calorie restricted" eaters have visions of eternal health dancing in their heads. But is life without pecan pie really worth living? By Corrie Pikul Tue, 15 Sep 2009 03:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2005/04/20/stabiner/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2005/04/20/stabiner/index.html?source=rss A new book says that teen girls aren't the drug-addicted, eating-disordered monsters that the media makes them out to be. By Sarah Hepola Tue, 15 Sep 2009 03:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/2008/05/08/eating_disorders/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/2008/05/08/eating_disorders/index.html?source=rss In Britain, there's an increase in kids under 10 being hospitalized for eating disorders. By Tracy Clark-Flory Tue, 15 Sep 2009 03:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/2008/04/25/eating/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/2008/04/25/eating/index.html?source=rss Self magazine finds that 75 percent of women have an unhealthy relationship with food. By Kate Harding Tue, 15 Sep 2009 03:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/2008/04/21/john_prescott/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/2008/04/21/john_prescott/index.html?source=rss John Prescott's recent revelation reminds us that eating disorders aren't just a female thing. By Sarah Hepola Tue, 15 Sep 2009 03:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/2008/03/28/sweet_valley_high/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/2008/03/28/sweet_valley_high/index.html?source=rss The fluffy 1980s teen fiction series updates itself -- by making its heroines even skinnier. By Carol Lloyd Tue, 15 Sep 2009 03:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/2007/07/12/underage_fashion/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/2007/07/12/underage_fashion/index.html?source=rss The British Fashion Council recommends that girls under 16 be banned from the fashion runway. By Tracy Clark-Flory Tue, 15 Sep 2009 03:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/2007/01/10/models/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/2007/01/10/models/index.html?source=rss Should the fashion industry require that models meet a minimum body mass index? By Page Rockwell Tue, 15 Sep 2009 03:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/2006/11/01/eating_disorders/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/2006/11/01/eating_disorders/index.html?source=rss A new online program hopes to prevent eating disorders among undergrads. But do Internet-based interventions stand a chance? By Sarah Goldstein Tue, 15 Sep 2009 03:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/2006/03/16/anorexia2/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/2006/03/16/anorexia2/index.html?source=rss More on interpreting that eating disorder study. By Sarah Goldstein Tue, 15 Sep 2009 03:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/2006/03/15/anorexia/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/2006/03/15/anorexia/index.html?source=rss A new study finds more than half the risk for developing anorexia is genetic. By Suzy Hansen Tue, 15 Sep 2009 03:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2003/02/21/lerner/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2003/02/21/lerner/index.html?source=rss Author Betsy Lerner explains why 20 years of therapy wasn't enough to save her from food addiction and manic-depression. By Amy Benfer Tue, 15 Sep 2009 03:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2002/03/25/fat_kids/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2002/03/25/fat_kids/index.html?source=rss 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 Janelle Brown Tue, 15 Sep 2009 03:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2001/07/23/pro_ana/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2001/07/23/pro_ana/index.html?source=rss A Web-based pro-anorexia movement provides a bizarre support network for starving girls. By Anne Burt Tue, 15 Sep 2009 03:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/tues/2000/12/05/fat/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/tues/2000/12/05/fat/index.html?source=rss My mother always told me I was fat. Then I realized that she was afraid she was. By Suzy Hansen Tue, 15 Sep 2009 03:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2000/10/09/grossout/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2000/10/09/grossout/index.html?source=rss 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 Evelyn Strauss Tue, 15 Sep 2009 03:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/health/feature/2000/09/13/anorexia/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/health/feature/2000/09/13/anorexia/index.html?source=rss I thought losing weight would get me the love I sought. Instead, I got a hospital room and a plate of spaghetti. By Mary Roach Tue, 15 Sep 2009 03:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/health/col/roac/2000/01/28/carrots/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/health/col/roac/2000/01/28/carrots/index.html?source=rss Raw carrot abuse is nothing to laugh at. By Alissa Quart Tue, 15 Sep 2009 03:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/feature/1999/09/16/teens/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/feature/1999/09/16/teens/index.html?source=rss Savvy about the media, steeped in pop psychology, today's kids have problems the experts still don't understand. By Lillie Wade Tue, 15 Sep 2009 03:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/1999/09/15/ophelia/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/1999/09/15/ophelia/index.html?source=rss "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 Mary Elizabeth Williams Tue, 15 Sep 2009 03:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/review/1999/07/23/gorgeous/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/review/1999/07/23/gorgeous/index.html?source=rss A mockumentary about a Midwestern teen beauty pageant turns out to be the guiltiest of this summer's guilty pleasures. By Abby Ellin Tue, 15 Sep 2009 03:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/feature/1999/07/06/pissed_off/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/feature/1999/07/06/pissed_off/index.html?source=rss She dreamed of being immortalized in literature -- until he showed her his manuscript.