Tag: eating disorder
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Nation & World
A gateway to eating disorders
Young women’s use of diet pills, laxatives for weight control linked with later eating disorder diagnosis.
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Nation & World
Giving weight too much weight
Programs to combat obesity may be aggravating eating disorders and undermining their severity, said experts during a panel discussion hosted by Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
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Nation & World
‘Tweens’ feel pressure for perfect bodies
Ten- and 11-year-old boys and girls feel pressured to have perfect bodies, U.S. and Canadian researchers found. The researchers found a direct association between body satisfaction and weight in fifth graders — part of the age group increasingly known as tweens by those in media marketing…