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When Mom Has an Eating Disorder, Everybody Suffers

by Julie Z. Rosenberg, Posted Nov 12th 2010 4:30PM

When Mom has food issues, kids play Follow the Leader. Illustration by Dori Hartley
It's every mom's nightmare: Finding out your child has an eating disorder. Even worse is thinking you're probably to blame.
Teresa Coates, a ...It's every mom's nightmare: Finding out your daughter has an eating disorder. Even worse is knowing you're probably to blame.
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Cut the Fat Talk: Sorority Encourages Building Better Body Images With Fat Talk Free Week

by Mary Kate Baumann, Posted Oct 21st 2010 1:05PM

"I'm having a fat day." We pretty much all stand guilty of muttering these words as we stare in the mirror, and, it's not just the grown-ups dissing their bodies. Young girls, tweens and teens refer to their body images in negatives, too. It's ...Friends don't let friends talk about being fat.
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Children and eating disorders

by Jennifer Jordan, Posted Sep 17th 2007 9:26AM

We all knew that girl in high school, the one who never ate anything. She was pencil thin, with paper thin hair and skin. She was anorexic or bulimic, but no one ever talked about it. She withered away right in front of us and no one realized it ...
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Yummy Mummy author battled bulimia

by Melissa Summers, Posted Mar 14th 2006 11:34AM

Sarah Gilbert enlightened us to the term "Yummy Mummy" last year, the gist being Yummy Mummies are not frumpy and haggard mothers, they're hip women walking their 3-inch heels through motherhood. Liz Fraser has written a guidebook for you ...
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