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Here you will find articles discussing the various ways culture can affect both the development of an eating disorder and eating disorder recovery.
Links to various articles in the news and other websites and blogs representing cultural voices will be posted here along with commentary.
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Thursday, 23 February 2012 13:06 |
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Eating Disorder thinking seems to be ignored by FDA advisors. The newest advisory coming out of the FDA on Medscape News runs this headline over a thorough article by Michael O'Riordan: FDA Advisors Recommend Approval of Obesity Drug Qnexa.
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Wednesday, 09 November 2011 21:25 |
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When I saw the headline, My secret battle with bulimia, by Diane Keaton I felt pangs of sorrow and tender connection with Diane.
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Sunday, 19 June 2011 19:55 |
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When body dissatisfaction leads to body obsession you create an invisible prison for yourself that is stronger than steel and stone. This is true regardless of whether you suffer from an eating disorder.
But what if you didn't know you were in prison? How could you plan an effective escape?
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Sunday, 09 January 2011 13:16 |
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The Black Swan artistic creative team bring the anorexic lived experience to the screen. Women with a history of bulimia and compulsive overeating identify with part of Nina’s experience, especially the confusion between fantasy and reality. But the person with severe anorexia is described meticulously.
In the film you see what looks like the fragile and delicate vulnerability of Nina. The film catches the seemingly exquisite spiritual quality of the anorexic woman that is a facade for the dark and powerful destructive elements within her.
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Sunday, 09 January 2011 12:48 |
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In the Black Swan, Nina’s distorted perceptions based on fantasies and limited vision become hallucinations she believes. Brain cells deprived of nutrition do not function normally. Nina believes perceptions which take her deeper into her hallucinations and guide her behavior.
The end of the film shows the extreme of glorified and malignant romanticism based on unrealistic definition of personal perfection. Nina glorifies meaningless
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Thursday, 22 December 2011 09:09 |
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Jean Kilbourne reveals the forces that pressure you into self doubt, fear, insecurity and limited perceptions of yourself. These forces fuel your eating disorder. Below is her fabulous video and six steps to free yourself.
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Wednesday, 28 September 2011 18:27 |
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 I found a "Called Out" comment on Forbes Magazine attacking obese people outrageous. I address it here.
Meghan Casserly has a wonderful article, "Eating Disorders and the Executive Woman," running in Forbes Magazine. She describes the call to anorexia that many professional women answer by restricting to the point of endangering their health and way of life. But she doesn't address the call to overeat or binge eat that creates overweight or obesity.
The outrageous comment contains this excerpt:
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Monday, 10 January 2011 10:13 |
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I'm heart broken over the shootings in Tucson, especially Christina Green's death at nine years old.
The level of acceptable violence seems to be climbing in our country. Violence sells.
But this climate of violence makes it easier for a person to make a violent choice.
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Sunday, 09 January 2011 13:07 |
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For Nina, the obsessed ballerina of the Black Swan, to get help in establishing her healthy process of development she would have to
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Sunday, 09 January 2011 12:37 |
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We don’t tend to think of the fragile and delicate as violent and dangerous. We admire the grace and beauty of the butterfly with no fear. We see the white swan, fluttering beautifully or the sweet gossamer like beauty of Nina at her minimal breakfast, and we don’t fear them. We might even say that one egg and a half a grapefruit is a normal and appropriate food for such a light and delicate being.
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