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(CBS News) Even though social media sites are taking a strong stance against websites that promote eating disorders, the pages dont seem to be going anywhere. On one blog covered with pro-ana tags found on a popular site, a woman gives a play ...

Tumblr and Pinterest have changed their user service terms to have the ability to shut down pro-anorexia sites. Will it make a difference?

LOS ANGELES, March 19, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Along with countless professionals and families dealing with the physical, emotional and financial consequences of eating disorders, I am deeply disturbed by the way your recent program, Dying to Be ...

Time magazine has weighed in on the case of a 7-year-olds weight problem discussed by her mother in the April issue of Vogue magazine. Her name is Bea. Bea’s mom, Dara-Lynn Weiss, wrote about publicly shaming her 7-year-old daughter in her ...

Research shows one in four children battling eating disorders is male and Australia has one of the highest rates of anorexia in boys in the world. Almost one in three male year 9 students used fasting, skipping meals, diet pills, vomiting after meals ...

THE BLOGGING website Tumblr is to ban blogs that promote self-harm. The site hosts 46.2 million blogs, which receive 13 billion hits a month.

The Women’s Resource Center at Northern Illinois University will present a panel discussion titled, “Body Image and Eating Disorders Awareness,” from 6-7:30 p.m. April 2 in the Duke Ellington Ballroom of the Holmes Student Center.

The blogging website Tumblr is to ban blogs that promote self-harm.

Popular magazines and television programs send messages to women that have an effect on how they view and treat their bodies.

Popular magazines and television programs send messages to women that have an effect on how they view and treat their bodies. “Our society has created really very unreasonable expectations for women as far as their physical appearance and a ...

The Israeli Parliament’s move to ban skinny models from appearing in that nation’s media may be less momentous than its efforts to thwart Iran’s bid to build nuclear weapons. But to the Israeli politicians who sponsored the measure, which won ...

To send a link to this page to a friend, you must be logged in. Beat, in partnership with Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust (CPFT) are developing new self help and support groups across Norfolk as part of the Norfolk Community Eating ...

Pictures of jutting bones, concave stomachs and toothpick thighs are sprinkled throughout a handful of boards on the visually-driven social networking site Pinterest, providing “thinspiration” for men and women with eating disorders.

February 26-March 3, 2012 was National Eating Disorder Awareness Week. Although most people werent aware the week existed, there was quite a buzz about eating disorders on a few diet and health related blogs. Because of the nature of eating disorders ...

The "Tumblrization of Pinterest" is now complete, with "thinspo" bloggers setting up camp on the site, as we suspected they might after Tumblr announced its crackdown on these sorts of self-harm blogs. Just one aspect of the self-harm milieu, "thinspiration" blogs glorify unhealthy anorexic behavior with images of super-skinny women alongside mantras like "never give up you'll have your dream ...

The Alliance for Eating Disorders Awareness estimates that eating disorders affect approximately 25 million Americans, but do you how much do you actually know about the condition? 

Kirsten Haglund was 19 when she became Miss America in 2008. She used that platform to speak about her battle with an eating disorder.

While young women are often the faces of eating disorders, diseases such as anorexia, bulimia and binge eating can affect any age -- and recent data suggest the numbers are rising among middle-aged women. The issue is in the spotlight in the U.S. during National Eating Disorders Awareness Week, which runs through March 3.

As many as 10 million females and one million males in the U.S. battle anorexia or bulimia. At least 15 million more struggle with binge-eating disorder.

National Eating Disorder Week 2012