Anorexic Girls Bond on Web to Dismay of Doctors
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An underground subculture of  teenage girls who bond over their eating disorders and glorify  bone-thin celebrities has surfaced on the Internet, in a  growing trend that experts say frustrates treatment.
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Sexualised images of girls in advertising and the media harms their mental and physical health, experts warn.
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Sufferers are being lured by faddish diets from private clinics, doctors say.
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Is it OK for doctors and parents to tell children and teens they&#039;re fat?
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People who use their computers to find information about their chronic disease often wind up in worse condition than if they had listened to their doctor, according to a University College London review of studies on Internet health.
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Young women are being warned not to put their lives at risk by taking laxatives in a bid to lose weight.
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For years, doctors have been relying on a vague nondiagnosis known by the acronym Ednos: eating disorder not otherwise specified.
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NEW YORK  - While extreme thinness may the  most obvious and life-threatening aspect of anorexia, new  research suggests that it is often the psychological symptoms  of eating disorders that take the longest to overcome.
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NEW YORK  - Excessive exercise is one of   the general warning signs of an eating disorder, but the   problem may be particularly common among anorexic women who   vomit or use laxatives to lose weight, a study shows.
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It's not just Jersey girls who get tripped up by embarrassing Internet photos.
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One in six calls to a 24-hour helpline last year concerning mental health came from girls contemplating suicide.
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Sitting down for regular family  meals may protect teen girls from developing eating disorders,  according to a new study published in the Archives of  Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine.
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A website video showing two Cardiff schoolgirls having a vicious fight  is criticised by a children's charity.
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NEW YORK  - Low levels of the hormone testosterone in women with anorexia nervosa are associated with anxiety, depression and bone loss, Harvard researchers told attendees of the Endocrine Society's 89th annual meeting, in Toronto.
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There is a disturbing trend in South Korea: people using the Web to trade tips about suicide and, in some cases, to form suicide pacts.
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Overweight children are stigmatized by their peers as early as age 3 and even face bias from their parents and teachers, giving them a quality of life comparable to people with cancer, a new analysis concludes.
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Marg Oaten's daughter was a happy, healthy girl who loved table tennis and drama until at the age of 10 she developed anorexia. Twelve years on she is still fighting the illness, which almost killed her.