Articles featuring Deanne Jade and the National Centre for Eating Disorders
Negative emotions can send us rushing to the biscuit tin or hiding our horrors in a tub of ice-cream - with up to 43% of people using food to alter their mood, according to a survey by the Priory Clinic.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3592058.stm
People who set up pro-anorexia websites which dissuade sufferers from seeking help should be sued, according to a group which helps people overcome eating disorders.
Can you turn a bitter experience into something sweet? Her great-grandmother Lilla’s recipe for survival in a Japanese concentration camp gave Frances Osborne food for thought
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,8126-1254590,00.html
Bulimics had overeaten and were overweight as childrenChildren who are overweight and eat too much risk the binge eating disorder bulimia as adults, say psychiatrists.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/3672378.stm
A study by researchers at King's College in London has found overweight children are at risk for becoming bulimic adults.
http://www.washtimes.com/upi-breaking/20040920-104336-2759r.htm
Scare stories in the past few weeks have highlighted salt, sugar and even salad as potential killers in Britain, and have filtered through to metropolitan India. An anxious TOBY MOORE tries to find out what can safely be eaten.
http://www.thestatesman.net/page.arcview.php?clid=4&id=83964&usrsess=1
About one student in five has a "severely flawed relationship with food", according to the National Centre for Eating Disorders.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,17329-1288108,00.html
The popularity of yoga is on the rise in Britain, but with its emphasis on 'lightness' and perfectionism, is this holistic exercise responsible for a new eating disorder? Rachel Shabi investigates yogarexia.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/weekend/story/0,3605,1425223,00.html
Girls as young as five are unhappy with their bodies and want to be thinner, according to a study which blames peer pressure in a child's early years at school.
http://news.telegraph.co.uk/
Sarah Womack talks to a mother about her girls' obsession with image. Lisa Hogan, 37, a mother of four girls under 14, admits her daughters are influenced by celebrity magazines and television "makeover" programmes to such an extent that they are already expressing a desire to lose weight and have plastic surgery.
http://news.telegraph.co.uk/
Girls as young as five are unhappy with their bodies and wish they were thinner, says a study. Almost half of the five to eight year-olds surveyed said they wanted to lose weight and most thought being slimmer would make them more popular.
http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/tm_objectid=15268706%26method=full%26siteid=89488%26headline=weight-is-worry-for-girls-aged-5-name_page.html
Can't lose weight because you can't cope with being hungry? Then just pop the latest pill that blocks the urge to eat.
http://society.guardian.co.uk/
