I refuse to feel shame after eating – but it saddens me that so many women still do
I thought moralised comments about eating were a thing of the past, but then I went on a girls’ holiday.
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The dark world of anorexia
Hadley Freeman’s Good Girls is ruthless and revealing on her illness but too soft on our culture’s damaging obsession with…
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The Weigh Up explores life after anorexia
This BBC Sounds podcast is a first-person account of how recovery from the eating disorder is possible.
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Eating disorders are a greatly misunderstood silent killer
Anorexia has the highest mortality rate of any mental illness, yet prejudice and ignorance persists.
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For those of us recovering from eating disorders, calorie-labelled menus will be devastating
As an anorexic teenager, I could tell you the calories in a Communion wafer. Plans for calorie counts on menus…
ByThose who die of anorexia don’t always do so surrounded by sympathy and understanding
Anorexia might win the eating disorder visibility contest but it doesn’t win any on-the-ground PR battles.
ByLaurie Penny on eating disorders: youthful rebellion turning inward, with deadly consequences
There is plenty of “awareness” of eating disorders in the media but just as much complicity in the idea that…
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