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Eating Disorders
Anorexia Nervosa: Anorexia nervosa is a serious, potentially life-threatening eating disorder characterized by self-starvation and excessive weight loss. Symptoms include inadequate food intake leading to a weight that is clearly too low and intense fear of weight gain, obsession with weight and persistent behavior to prevent weight gain.
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Bulimia Nervosa: Bulimia is a potentially life-threatening eating disorder. People with this condition binge eat and then take steps to avoid weight gain. Most commonly, this means vomiting (purging), but it can also mean excessive exercising or fasting.
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Binge Eating (Compulsive Over Eating): Binge eating disorder (BED) is an eating disorder characterized by recurrent episodes of eating large quantities of food (often very quickly and to the point of discomfort); a feeling of a loss of control during the binge occurs.
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Orthorexia: An obsession with eating foods that one considers healthy. A medical condition in which the sufferer systematically avoids specific foods in the belief that they are harmful.
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EDNOS: A person with Eating Disorder Not Otherwise Specified (EDNOS) may present with many of the symptoms of other eating disorders such as Anorexia Nervosa or Bulimia Nervosa but will not meet the full criteria for diagnosis of these disorders. This does not mean that the person has a less serious eating disorder.
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Slam Poetry
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Personal Eating Disorder Stories
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Films
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Starving in Suburbia: A young dancer becomes obsessed by a Thinspiration website
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Hunger Point: A family is pushed to its limits when one of the daughters' lives is blighted by an eating disorder.
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Dying to Dance: A young ballet dancer is pushed to her limits due to the strict regime of her company that demands her to be underweight
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