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It's a start: Fewer too-thin models at New York Fashion week this year

Over the past few years, the fashion industry has received a fair amount of criticism for using too many skeleton-thin models. And it seems they're ... Read More »

Rachael Ray show employee fired, files lawsuit

Aaron Ferguson, a former accountant for Rachael Ray's TV cooking show, has filed a $1 million lawsuit after being fired. Ferguson has battled anorexia ... Read More »

Hot celebrities over 40 (and how they impact the rest of us)

Shows like Desperate Housewives and Sex and the City have given the world a new way to look at aging. Turning 40 or 50 no longer necessarily means a ... Read More »

Are you a disordered eater?

Anorexia and bulimia are eating disorders where people use unnatural methods to get or stay thin. But there's another category of eating problems; ... Read More »

Family meals help girls avoid eating disorders

A recent study found that girls who ate with their families at least five times per week were less likely to participate in weight control behaviors ... Read More »

Teenage boys increasingly seeing eating disorders

A new study says that teenage boys in the U.S. are increasingly seeing eating disorders, and that the rate of those problems rose greatly between the ... Read More »

We love to gawk at fit celebs weekly roundup: Reality check

Hopefully we all know celebrities don't represent reality as the rest of us know it. The famous people we see have been made up, personal trained, ... Read More »

Kids can have eating disorders too

If you knew a girl or boy who seemed thin all through those early school years only to have an "official" eating disorder diagnosis later in life, did ... Read More »

Can pregnancy trigger a binge eating disorder?

In most cases getting pregnant is beneficial for eating disorders, with many commonly going into remission while the baby is growing. But binge ... Read More »

A look inside body image issues of young minds

I remember thinking the summer before I started 7th grade that I needed to exercise so I could look my best as I started a new phase in my life -- ... Read More »