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ANOREXIA NERVOSA, BULIMIA NERVOSA, BINGE-EATING DISORDER AND THEIR VARIANTS.
The eating disorders anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge-eating disorder, and their variants, all feature serious disturbances in eating behavior and weight regulation. They are associated with a wide range of adverse psychological, physical, and social consequences. A person with an eating disorder may start out just eating smaller or larger amounts of food, but at some point, their urge to eat less or more spirals out of control. Severe distress or concern about body weight or shape, or extreme efforts to manage weight or food intake, also may characterize an eating disorder.
http://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/publications/eating-disorders-new-trifold/index.shtml
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MOVING TOWARDS ANOREXIA?
29 May 2015
Asian celebrities who look so shockingly skinny they seem almost anorexic http://goo.gl/u6YxG7
http://www.lollipop.sg/content/asian-stars-who-are-so-shockingly-thin-its-worrying#xtor=CS2-4
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Celebs Who Battled Anorexia.. (8 Photos) http://bit.ly/1JNGJt3
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These 12 Girls Suffered From Anorexia Nervosa, What Happe… http://bit.ly/1e6j7nB
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Actress who has been battling anorexia for 10 years is refused treatment by hospitals http://goo.gl/qDA2CQ
She released a video on YouTube describing her fight against the life-threatening eating disorder, reports AsianTown via The Daily Mail.
In the footage, she explains how her condition has severely declined in recent months, leaving her emaciated, breathless and too weak to move around on her own at her San Clemente home.
She also reveals how her husband, Rod Edmondson, has had to quit his job to become her 24-hour caregiver, while area hospitals won’t treat her because her “dangerous” weight makes her a “liability”.
“There’s one hospital across the country that can help, and my chances are very slim. We need your help,’ a gaunt-looking Ms Farrokh says in the video, asking viewers to donate ‘anything you can’.
Sitting on a couch with a pink hooded top covering her tiny frame, Ms Farrokh, begins the video by saying:
“I need your help. I’m suffering from an eating disorder. It’s a very severe kind of anorexia.”
She finally guides viewers to a dedicated GoFundMe page, where she is aiming to raise $100,000 to fund her treatment.
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The issues of anorexia and underweight models are familiar territory to the French fashion industry — in 2010, Isabelle Caro, an anorexic 28-year-old French fashion model, died shortly after posing for a photographic campaign to raise awareness about the illness.
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2015/03/18/france-bans-skinny-models_n_6893538.html
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Up to an estimated 40,000 people suffer from anorexia in France, nine out of 10 of them women and girls.
#France to fine and jail those encouraging #anorexia http://bit.ly/1P1rA9y
PARIS (AFP) – Inciting people to extreme thinness could be punishable by a year in prison and a fine of 10,000 euros (S$14,710) in France after MPs voted Thursday to take aim at “pro-anorexia” websites.
Deputies voted through an amendment to a law on public health that would punish anyone “provoking people to excessive thinness by encouraging prolonged dietary restrictions that could expose them to a danger of death or directly impair their health.”
– See more at: http://www.straitstimes.com/news/world/europe/story/france-fine-and-jail-those-encouraging-anorexia-20150402#sthash.xzqI54BI.dpuf
France May Pass A Law Banning ‘Too Skinny’ Models
Trigger warning: This article contains information about eating disorders which may be triggering to survivors.
France is reportedly likely to pass a bill that will ban “too skinny” models from being featured in fashion shows and advertising campaigns.
According to Reuters, agencies or fashion houses that hire models who are deemed “underweight” could incur fines of up to 75,000 euros, and anyone responsible for hiring could face six months in jail.
In order to be hired, models will have to present a medical certificate showing a Body Mass Index (BMI) of at least 18, about 121 lbs for a height of 5’7, before being hired for a job, and will be subject to periodic weighings.
“This is an important message to young women, young women who see these models as an aesthetic ideal,” health minister Marisol Touraine said. “It’s important for fashion models to say that they need to eat well and take care of their health.”
The bill, which was drafted by socialist politician Olivier Veran, will also penalize pro-anorexia websites and “other public glorifications of ‘extreme thinness.'” It will go before the Assemblée nationale on March 31, and according to Touraine, is likely to be backed by the Socialist government.
“It’s intolerable to promote malnutrition and to commercially exploit people who are endangering their own health,” Veran told Le Parisien. “A level of acceptable body mass index should be set and enforced. Websites encouraging young girls to lose weight should also be banned.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2015/03/18/france-bans-skinny-models_n_6893538.html
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