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News Flash: Victoria Beckham Eats Food
Responding to critics that constantly nitpick at her super skinny figure, Victoria fired back, saying that she’s healthy, happy and eats food on a regular basis, thank you very much. She may be a little on the skinny side, but she says she couldn’t keep up with her three boys or her global fashion business if she didn’t have a healthy lifesty...
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They Say: Kids Throw Up When Parents Are Smart
More proof that we’re dooming our kids with every good thing we do: a new study shows the further parents went with their education, the more likely their daughters will develop an eating disorder. So all those years of holding my head over the toilet can be blamed on my mother’s master’s degree? Read more...
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You Can’t Scare Your Kids Out Of An Eating Disorder
They seem like the perfect mix of over-the-top drama and real-life cautionary tales to scare your kids straight. But all those books out there warning about the dangerous world of eating disorders? Could be helping your kids advance their disordered eating. A look at some books written for teens that fall in the "children's lit" category over...
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Anorexia May Be Caused By Brain Chemistry
A study of 200 people—mostly females aged twelve to twenty-five—has radically changed the way doctors think about anorexia. While previous research on the disease has stressed cultural and familial causes of the disease, researchers have now determined that anorexia may be closely related to brain chemistry: “They found that about 70%...
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Smackdown: Barbie And The End Of The World
We planned this Smackdown awhile ago, not long after my daughter opened a Scuba Barbie for Christmas. Her grandparents, who had refused to purchase a Barbie for their own daughter, were beyond thrilled to buy one for mine. "Every girl should have a Barbie," they gushed. My wife stared at them in slack-jawed, open-mouth wonder. "What the hell...
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