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Bias Confession from an Eating Disorders Specialist
Eating Disorders Today | March 3rd 2008 by JoannaP
My patients and readers live their own lives with their own agendas and values leading the way. However, I am not neutral. I want, with all my heart, for them to live long healthy lives. I want them to be well, to have love, joy, satisfaction, confid read more
Things to Do During National Eating Disorders Awareness Week (or…
Eating Disorders Today | February 25th 2008 by JoannaP
Sign the National Eating Disorders Association’s Declaration of Independence from a Weight- Obsessed World to free yourself from the three D’s: Dieting, Drive for Thinness, and Body Dissatisfaction. Celebrate Fearless Friday - A Day Wit read more
Miss America, Anorexia, Fear: Hiding in Plain Sight?
Eating Disorders Today | February 23rd 2008 by JoannaP
Carrie, on ED-Bites wrote an indignant response to what I consider a rather cavalier column about eating disorders in the New York Daily News. Carrie said her own anorexia was based not on controlling weight or the external world but on controlling f read more
Does Advertising Effect Eating Disorders?
Eating Disorders Today | February 1st 2008 by JoannaP
A recent Hubpages blog raised the question: Does advertising effect eating disorders? In my opinion, much of current advertising promotes both tiny size fashion in clothes and huge portion size in food. It's an impossible combination many people stri read more
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