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therapists & professionals.
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Preview: November 17,2010 – New Hampshire (The Dartmouth) – Binging, purging, starvation, excessive exercise, diuretic use, self-hate: these are the conventional signs of eating disorders. At Dartmouth, 8.9 percent of students reported have experienced an eating disorder or an eating-related concern, according… More
Trigger Rating:0 – Not triggering (contains no triggering material)
Preview: November 15, 2010 (San Diego Union-Tribue) – As a psychologist specializing in eating disorders, Divya Kakaiya knows all about research showing how the thin-obsessed media especially television negatively affects girls.
It took a group of San Diego middle-schoolers to make her turn off the tube… More
Trigger Rating:0 – Not triggering (contains no triggering material)
Preview: November 15, 2010 (Estonian Public Broadcasting) – As the first study of its kind in Estonia, a fresh doctor’s dissertation at the University of Tartu studied eating disorder trends in the nation.
Kirsti Akermann’s research found that 7.7 percent of women and 1 percent of men in Estonia have eating… More
Trigger Rating:0 – Not triggering (contains no triggering material)
Preview: November 13, 2010 (ThirdAge.com) – Eating disorders are now being studied in a Welsh university program – the first of the kind the country has ever seen.
More than 1000 new cases of eating disorders are being confirmed each year.
Now Cardiff University’s curriculum includes a module called, The… More
Trigger Rating:2.6 – Very triggering (lots of detail, self-injury, suicide)
Preview: November 13, 2010 (OnMilwaukee.com) –
By Sarah Foster
Most of us look in the mirror and can immediately find a couple things we don’t like about our appearance. Maybe it’s our chin, breast size or a couple wrinkles that weren’t there a few years ago. For some, we just lament the fact that we were… More