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- Today Show - Fashion Industry Issues Model Guidelines
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- Newswise
- In the wake of several recent deaths worldwide of fashion models, the Academy for Eating Disorders (AED), an international organization for eating disorder treatment, research, and education professionals ...
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- EurekAlert
- Misstatements and ignorance claiming that families "cause" eating disorders is like blaming parents for diabetes or asthma or cancer says an international group ...
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- UNC News release
- New book by UNC psychologist offers plan for conquering 'runaway eating' ... for eating problems has risen alarmingly, said Dr. Cynthia M. Bulik, the co-author of "Runaway Eating: the Eight-Point Plan ... are trapped by their own food and weight obsessions," said Bulik, who is the William R. and Jeanne H. Jordan distinguished ...
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- Wired News - Finding Anorexia in the Genes
- Since the 1970s when anorexia nervosa was first brought to the public eye, most people believed it was a social disease caused by pressure to be thin coupled with depression or anxiety.
But genetic research over the past several years shows that genes might play as big a role...
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- Position Stand on THE FEMALE ATHLETE TRIAD
- Girls and women should be encouraged to participate in sports and to strive for excellence, but there is also an obligation of health professionals responsible for their well-being to understand the influence of nutrition on their health...The IOC Medical Commission has published a position stand for the Female Athlete Triad...
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- Taking a bite out of a serious illness
- “It was believed for a long time that (eating disorders) were socio-cultural, that somehow our culture or the emphasis on thinness caused anorexia,” said Cynthia Bulik,PhD, the William R. and Jeanne H. Jordan distinguished professor of eating disorders at UNC—the only endowed professorship of its kind in the U.S. and one of two in the world. “We now know that's just part of the picture..."
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- UNC Hospitals opens the Southeast's first comprehensive eating disorders program...
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