http://www.metafilter.com/tags/eatingdisorder Posts tagged with 'eatingdisorder' at MetaFilter. Tue, 25 Mar 2008 13:21:46 -0800 Tue, 25 Mar 2008 13:21:46 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/70202/A%2DShiny%2DNew%2DGeneration <a href="http://www.missbimbo.com/">Miss Bimbo</a> invites users to become the "coolest, richest <a href="http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/society/bryonygordon/mar08/bimbo.htm">most famous bimbo in the whole world</a>". <a href="http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/03/25/miss.bimbo/?iref=mpstoryview">Unsurprisingly, the site, which encourages girls as young as seven to give virtual dolls breast implants and put them on crash diets</a>, has been <a href="http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/games/archives/2008/03/25/get_ready_for_miss_bimbo.html">widely condemned by parents and children's activists</a>. <a href="http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/20080325_the_miseducation_of_miss_bimbo/">"Level 7: After you broke up with your boyfriend you went on an eating binge! Now it’s time to diet ... Your target weight is less than 132lbs."</a> tag:metafilter.com,2008:site.70202 Tue, 25 Mar 2008 13:21:46 -0800 batshitinsane bimbo children eatingdisorder fashion girls missbimbo onlinegame plasticsurgery scumbags sexism virtual women worstoftheweb chuckdarwin http://www.metafilter.com/66091/Thin%2Dtimes%2Dfor%2Dthe%2Dmanorexic <a href="http://articles.citypages.com/2007-10-31/news/boy-interrupted/">Eating disorders aren't just for women.</a> While commonly understood as a condition that hits <a href="http://www.something-fishy.org/cultural/issuesformen.php">women</a>, eating disorders like <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anorexia_nervosa">anorexia</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulimia_nervosa">bulimia</a> can be and are devastating (to say nothing of 'underdiagnosed') for men, too. This is the story of Jeremy, an 88-pound 36-year old guy. <a href="http://blogs.citypages.com/blotter/2007/10/boy_interrupted.php">Links to studies and other materials here</a>. Jeremy's audio blog is particularly fascinating: <a href=" http://blogs.citypages.com/blotter/Jeremyblog1.mp3">Part one (:25)</a> <a href=" http://blogs.citypages.com/blotter/Jeremyblog2.mp3">Part two (:18)</a> <a href=" http://blogs.citypages.com/blotter/Jeremyblog3.mp3">Part three (:45)</a> <a href=" http://blogs.citypages.com/blotter/Jeremyblog4.mp3">Part four (:35)</a> <a href=" http://blogs.citypages.com/blotter/Jeremyblog5.mp3">Part five (:30)</a> <a href=" http://blogs.citypages.com/blotter/Jeremyblog6.mp3">Part six (:40)</a> <a href=" http://blogs.citypages.com/blotter/Jeremyblog7.mp3">Part seven (1:00)</a> <a href="http://blogs.citypages.com/blotter/Jeremyblog8.mp3">Part eight (:15)</a> tag:metafilter.com,2007:site.66091 Wed, 31 Oct 2007 14:56:25 -0800 anorexia bulimia eatingdisorder manorexia norm http://www.metafilter.com/55568/Lauren%2DGreenfields%2DTHIN "<a href="http://www.faheykleingallery.com/featured_artists/greenfield_exhibition/greenfield_e_frames.htm">THIN</a> is a <a href="http://viiphoto.com/detail-story3.php?news_id=538">photographic essay</a> and a <a href="http://www.thindocumentary.com/">documentary film</a> about the <a href="http://www.laurengreenfield.com/thinpresspeople.html">treatment of eating disorders</a>. In 1997, <a href="http://www.laurengreenfield.com/">Lauren Greenfield</a> began <a href="http://www.takegreatpictures.com/HOME/Columns/TGP_Choice/Details/params/object/9891/default.aspx">documenting the lives of patients</a> at the <a href="http://www.renfrew.org/">Renfrew Center</a> in Coconut Grove, Florida, a forty-bed residential facility for the treatment of women with eating disorders. She subsequently returned to Renfrew to take more photographs, and was eventually given <a href="http://www.filmthreat.com/index.php?section=interviews&Id=1062">unprecedented access</a> to film <a href="http://www.filmmakermagazine.com/winter2006/features/defining_moments.php">the daily lives of patients</a>". <small>(scroll down or search for "Greenfield")</small>. 2002 MeFi post on Greenfield's previous project, "<a href="http://zonezero.com/exposiciones/fotografos/girlcult/index.html">Girl Culture</a>", <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/22452">here</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2006:site.55568 Mon, 16 Oct 2006 10:43:29 -0800 anorexia anorexianervosa bodyimage documentary eatingdisorder film laurengreenfield photography photojournalism viiphoto matteo http://www.metafilter.com/53971/Darlene%2DRockeys%2Dwalk%2Dof%2Dpain <a href="http://www.thedesertsun.com/apps/pbcs.dll/misc?url=/misc/SWF_gallery/DarleneRockey_AUDIOGALLERY.pbs">"I choose to hang on to the anorexia" <small><em>(requires Flash, disturbing images)</em></small></a> tag:metafilter.com,2006:site.53971 Thu, 17 Aug 2006 08:24:13 -0800 anorexia anorexianervosa california depression desertsun eatingdisorder food health joseomarornelas photojournalism matteo