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'Katniss' Fat Digs By Critics Are Toxic: Experts

Mary Papenfuss — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 00:56:41 CDT

Critics' attacks on actress Jennifer Lawrence for being too hefty to star in the Hunger Games are threatening to undo all the positives of having a strong female character in a megahit movie, say experts. The New York Times zinged the choice of Lawrence for the role because her "womanly...

Demi Lovato Furious Over Disney Anorexia Joke

Mary Papenfuss — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 00:01:00 CST

After battling anorexia, singer/actress Demi Lovato is furious her former boss, the Disney Channel, joked about the eating disorder on a TV show. A character on the program Shake It Up said recently: “I could just eat you up. Well, if I ate.” Lovato responded in an incensed, all-capitals tweet....

Yoplait Pulls Ad Accused of Promoting Eating Disorders

Tim Karan — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 17:28:45 CDT

There's healthy, and then there's insensitive, argues the National Eating Disorders Association. General Mills has pulled a Yoplait commercial that NEDA says promotes anorexia and bulimia, reports Huffington Post . The ad depicts a slim woman standing in front of a refrigerator while she justifies eating a slice of raspberry cheesecake...

Eating Disorders Hit 500K Teens

Kate Schwartz — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 09:57:22 CST

An eating disorder study being billed as the largest analysis of US teens ever is returning some depressingly large numbers: More than half a million have had an eating disorder, according to government research. Binge-eating was the most common disorder, found in 1.5% of teens studied, followed by bulimia...

Too Much Facebook May Lead to Eating Disorder

Kate Schwartz — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 11:45:05 CST

The eating-disorder blame game has a new player: Facebook. A study has found that the more time teen girls spend on the social network, the greater their risk of developing anorexia or bulimia. The researchers asked 248 girls, ages 12 to 19, about their Internet and TV habits, and eating...

'Drunkorexia' Walloping College Kids

Mary Papenfuss — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 05:11:30 CDT

College kids suffering from eating disorders are increasingly grappling with the added complication of "drunkorexia." Drunkorexics, most of them women, skip eating to reserve calories for binge drinking. While many students are proud of their ability to down copious amounts of booze without gaining weight by relying on starvation diets...

Health Mag Ripped for 'Fattening Up' Cover Model

Mary Papenfuss — Mon, 17 May 2010 06:33:00 CDT

Another magazine is in trouble for altering a model's photograph—but this time it's for "fattening her up" rather than slimming her down. Healthy packed as much as 44 pounds on the waif-like Kamilla Wladyka when she turned up at a photo shoot looking "really thin and unwell," editor Jane...

Fitness Mags' Bikini Bods Promote Eating Disorders

Kate Schwartz — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 15:45:00 CST

No single thing causes eating disorders, but fitness magazines and their hard-bodied celeb cover models aren't helping, writes Katie Drummond. "Like heroin for the eating disordered, they offer misleading diet information, along with airbrushed photos of impossible physical ideals," she writes for True/Slant . One in particular has sunk to a...

German Women's Mag Bans Models

Mary Papenfuss — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 04:12:29 CDT

The most popular German women's magazine is banning professional models from its editorial pages. Brigitte will use only "real woman" from now on to illustrate its stories, declared its editor, who said he was "fed up" with having to retouch pictures of underweight models who bear no resemblance to readers....