Eating Disorder Web Sites Not Harmless
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Pro-eating disorder Web sites claiming to help adolescents with eating disorders can do more harm than good, a California university study found.
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NEW YORK  - Obese women who are considering  restricting their calorie intake to shed pounds should not be  dissuaded by those who believe dieting may increase their risk  of developing a binge-eating disorder, new study findings  suggest.
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InfoWorld - The Web is scarier than most people realize, according to research published recently by Google.
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Binge eating is the most common eating disorder but is still not considered a formal diagnosis.
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Like many teenage girls, Lee Ann Thill was obsessed with her appearance. A diabetic, she was already suffering from bulimia &#151; forcing herself to throw up to lose weight. But it wasn't enough, and she'd recently put on 20 pounds.
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People who use the Internet to find information about their chronic disease often wind up in worse condition than if they had listened to their doctor, a British study has found.
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MILAN, Italy  - An irreverent Internet site  crammed with pornography has Italy's elite squirming with  unease.
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A Web site on sex branches out to one on babies. Surprise!
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A formula for Web schemes: a lot of mathematicians, a lax legal system and Western targets.
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Health obsessives will be breaking out in a sweat when they read the latest research: browsing medical websites can be bad for you.
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Blog: A new study shows that online safety advice needs to go beyond "don't talk to strangers" to address the specific risky behaviors that make youth ages 10-17 vulnerable to online victimization.
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Itâs news that will have health obsessives breaking out in a sweat: browsing medical websites can be bad for you, a new study claimed today.
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As if porn sites and pedophiles in chat rooms weren&#039;t frustrating enough for parents whose children use the Internet, now online postings of amateur video featuring skin and violence are raising concerns. The explosion in online video-sharing sites, where clips of any nature can be easily uploaded for the world to see, has become the latest challenge for parents trying to protect their children and for Web sites coping with obscene submittals.
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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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Those who use the Internet to research their own chronic diseases often wind up in worse condition than if they had heeded a doctor&#39;s advice.
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&quot;The State of Search Engine Safety,&quot; a recent study by McAfee&#39;s SiteAdvisor group, has some classic good news and bad news for Internet surfers. Using several automated techniques, the SiteAdvisor study determined that 4 percent of the query results offered by the major search engines lead to potentially dangerous Web sites, and the total for sponsored links is nearly twice as high at 7 percent.
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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