In an interview with fashion news website WWD, Moss said one of her mottoes was: "Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels."
Eating disorder charity Beat described the comments as "dangerous" and "very unhelpful" for sufferers.
A spokeswoman for Moss said the comment had been "completely misrepresented".
A national charity has today released research that shows almost half of young people diagnosed with eating disorders said that bullying was a contributing factor to their problem.
Beat, the national campaigning charity supporting people affected by eating disorders, carried out the survey, which it claims is the largest survey of its kind to date. A total of 600 young people with eating disorders were questioned for the survey, of which 91% said they had experienced bullying and 46% felt it contributed to their eating disorder.
Although eating disorders disclosed among SJSU students are relatively low, the university offers a variety of resources for those who are suffering, a Student Health Center official said.
Jennifer Waldrop, wellness and health promotion coordinator and nutritionist at the center, said that college is a time of profound change in students' lives.
She said that through college, some students thrive and others become overwhelmed, which she said is a cause of eating disorders, in addition to depression and anxiety.
Freshman English major Katherine Reed said she doesn't want to eat when she's emotionally drained.
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Youngsters suffering from eating disorders are set to benefit from the help of those with dietician jobs thanks to a new scheme.
The Eating Disorder Service is being set up in Nottingham and will take a multi-disciplinary approach to helping young people overcome such problems.
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It’s only a few months in to the college experience, but it doesn’t take long for some students to gain weight in their new surroundings, with all-you-can eat salad bars, desserts to linger over while procrastinating and soda by the gallon to stay up all night. Here are some of the specific causes of the 15-pound weight gains some freshman carry home from school:
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OLATHE, Kan. - In this age of monster burgers and bulging waistlines, it's good to eat healthy, right? Not when it becomes an obsession. There's no official name for it yet, but many call that obsession "orthorexia."
Laura Hergert developed the obsession through junior high, high school and college. Foods were either good or bad to her. She'd eat only the good ones and she'd spent hours each day thinking about eating healthy and going online between meals and snacks to log everything she ate.
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Fifteen percent of women between 17 and 24 years old have eating disorders, and one milllion men in the United States struggle with eating disorders, said Joelle Maletis, a marriage and family therapist intern.
Maletis, said 85 percent of girls by age 10 know how to diet. They have tried it because of the pressure from the media and have been influenced to be underweight because of our culture’s belief that stars such as Nicole Richie and Paris Hilton, who look emaciated are beautiful.
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Regarding the Oct. 21 opinion piece, “Women dying to look good,” I regret that many women all over the world have been pursuing their physical beauty in spite of possible dangers that they may face. I believe women need to realize and identify their own unique beauty, not be influenced from outside.
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Alanis Morissette was the definition of "fierce" when she arrived on the American music scene with one of the big break-up songs of the '90s, "You Oughta Know." But behind that tough exterior were secrets of a difficult past.
"As a teen, I was both anorexic and bulimic," Alanis Morissette recently told Health magazine for its December issue. "I was a young woman in the public eye, on the receiving end of a lot of attention, and I was trying to protect myself from men who were using their power in ways I was too young to know how to handle."
Kate Moss's recent interview in Women's Wear Daily is causing a bit of a stir.
When asked by WWD.com if she has a motto, the British supermodel replied: "There are loads. There’s 'Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.' That’s one of them. You try and remember, but it never works."
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The sudden closure of a city bulimia and anorexia treatment centre is a "huge loss" to the community, says an eating disorder outreach worker.
"It's a huge loss. I'm dismayed," said Peggy Szucs, executive director of Me Without Measure, an Edmonton eating disorder foundation.
The Society for Assisted Co-operative Recovery from Eating Disorders (SACRED) abruptly closed Oct. 30, after operating in the city for 13 years.
PLATTSBURGH, NY (11/13/2009)(readMedia)-- A sorority at SUNY Plattsburgh is inviting the campus and community to dance the night away to raise awareness for healthy lifestyles.
Delta Phi Epsilon Sorority will be sponsoring their first annual "Deepher Dance-A-Thon" to raise money and awareness for their philanthropy, the National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Eating Disorders.
The National Eating Disorders Association (NEDA) has joined leading experts on body image issues from around the world to pledge its support of the global launch of the Real Women campaign, which condemns the use of ultra-thin, digitally altered women in advertisements. A research paper released Monday, "The Impact of Media Images on Body Image and Behaviours: A Summary of the Scientific Evidence,"* examines the psychological effects of consumer society on individuals, particularly media influences on body dissatisfaction, materialism and dysfunctional buying behavior. Signed by 45 leading academics, doctors and clinical psychologists from the U.S.A., England, Australia, Brazil, Spain and Ireland, it details scientific evidence on how the use of airbrushing to promote "body perfect" ideals in advertising is a root cause of an array of serious problems in young women, including eating disorders, depression, extreme exercising and an increase in cosmetic surgery.
Calling for advertising rules to be changed to restrict the use of airbrushed images, the group of 44 academics doctors and psychologists say that the pictures promote unrealistic expectations of perfection, encouraging eating disorders and self-harm.
The paper has been submitted to the Advertising Standards Agency with a call for all airbrushed adverts to carry a notice making clear the images have been artificially enhanced.
It has been written by Dr Helga Dittmar of the University of Sussex, Dr Emma Halliwell of the University of the West of England and backed by 42 more academics.
Of course not, but researchers at Stanford University are making progress with anorexia patients by having them perform tasks, including a card game, that have nothing to do with food, weight or body image.
And that's the point. These are neutral topics, says Kathleen Kara Fitzpatrick, Ph.D. For any of us, it is much more feasible to change our thinking about non-emotion-laden topics. And then, perhaps, our behavior.
On an unseasonably beautiful sunny afternoon yesterday, seven student volunteers spent four hours in a University of Pennsylvania conference room learning how to help their peers - maybe save their lives.
The students were there for training on how to listen to someone who has a problem, how to recognize when the problem is an emergency, and how to connect someone with counseling and campus support groups.
Yoga guru Simone Moir is a walking miracle. Her lithe limbs and steely-strong muscles come from years of stretching and strength training - but she didn''t always look such a picture of health.
At age 16, Simone weighed a shocking 3st 10lb and was at death's door after years of suffering from anorexia.
She reckons her discovery of yoga and meditation saved her and now she dedicates her life to helping others follow the same path. Simone has even devised training regimes for stars including Madonna and Sting.
Most women get into an eating disorder spiral because they’re worried about fitting into a prom dress, or because of a larger need for some semblance of control, or because of the harsh light society casts on women of excess weight. Not Angelina Jolie. According to her brother James Haven, “She sees food differently and she feels guilty about what she has compared with so many starving people who she wants to help.” You may think that becoming so skinny that you could use your collar bone to fight crime is an excessive way to show solidarity with the poor, but celebrities have long been known for their willingness to hurt themselves for the sake of others.
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Is it possible for healthy eating to become an unhealthy obsession?
Absolutely.
Orthorexia is a word turning up frequently in the media to describe an excessive focus on healthy eating and dietary restriction. Though the term is not yet an official psychological diagnosis according to the DSM-IV, it is being used by some clinicians to describe patients with eating disorders that resemble obsessive compulsive.
"They have to be a little thinner than you and I because you always photograph a little fatter." Words of wisdom from Vogue fave Grace Coddington just as the holidays near. But this isn't a reminder from Coddington to put down the fork and do the head-tilt-turned-body-pose for holiday event pics taken by Patrick McMullan; this is Coddington's way of explaining how model anorexia comes to be. "Because they're kids, they take it too far, and they can't regulate their lives, and next thing you know they're anorexic, and it is tragic.” Her remarks come off the ripple-wave that the firing at Ralph Lauren created, a situation Coddington does not chide Lauren for. Instead, she thinks Ralph Lauren is getting too much bad publicity because most models at Ralph Lauren are not super skinny, and this is an isolated incident.
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A launch event for the new online magazine “Real” magazine took place on Matador Walk Tuesday, October 27. CSUN students stopped by the “Get REAL!” event where free food and free massage therapy was offered courtesy of the University Counseling Services (UCS), despite strong winds.
The magazine was a project that had been in the works for the past three years.
I don’t know about you folks, but for me, a weekend with the rents is always fraught with tension. Is Mom going to pester me about brushing my hair? Is Dad going to ask me how much money I’m saving? Will they bristle if my boyfriend and I sleep in the same bed?
But I didn’t see Sunday morning’s battle royale coming at all.
Sara always blots her pizza with a tissue to save calories. Carrie never eats the crust. Margaret professes to love deep dish pizza, but peels off all of the cheese. Mark rarely eats pizza because he doesn’t deserve it unless he runs ten miles first.
Which of these behaviors is normal? Which might be signs of an eating disorder? Sometimes it’s hard to make a distinction.
While perhaps none of these fictional characters would be diagnosed with anorexia, bulimia or a binge eating disorder –- the most commonly referenced eating disorders -– they may each have their own varying levels of undefinable psychological food struggles.
NEW PALTZ - The State University of New York at New Paltz will host a lecture by Pulitzer Prize-nominated author Marya Hornbacher, who wrote "Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia." Hornbacher and will speak at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday in Lecture Center 100.
STARING down at her dinner plate, tears flooding down her face, Abigail Prince felt desperate. Just looking at the food made the 16-year-old feel sick.
And the thought of eating it left her paralysed with fear.
“It was like I was being asked to walk the plank,” says Aba, as the now-19-year-old is known to her friends. “Some days even something as small as a chocolate button was like poison; I’d avoid it at all costs.
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A new study has revealed that girls with dieting mothers are more likely to suffer from eating disorders.
The survey involving 512 teenage girls with an average age of 14 said their mothers dramatically influence their self-image and they felt damaged by the effects of their mum's dieting and views on food. The findings revealed that 6 per cent had an eating disorder, rising to 10 per cent among those whose mothers diet.
New smart phone or iPhone applications that allow users to monitor their caloric intake and body weight could fuel or trigger an eating disorder, some experts warn.
Though keeping a food journal has been shown to be an effective weight loss tool-- tracking minute details of everything you eat 24 hours a day “fosters the illusion that excessive monitoring of food intake and weight represents a normal, health-conscious lifestyle,” said Dr. Harry Brandt, Director of the Center for Eating Disorders at Sheppard Pratt in Baltimore.
Just ask Christina Kane, who has tried everything from the grapefruit diet to Atkins, with no success. Then she heard about Dr. Siegal’s Cookie Diet, which involves eating six prepackaged cookies a day, plus one ‘real’ meal — say, skinless chicken and steamed vegetables.
“I thought, ‘That diet looks so incredibly easy,’ ” said Ms. Kane, 43, a legal secretary in Washington, who started paying $56 a week for the prepackaged cookies in June, when she weighed 255 pounds. Three months later, she was 40 pounds lighter. “If you can make it through the first week you’re in the clear,” she said.
College-aged students across the country sweat long hours in the gym, experiment with the latest appetite suppressants and devour the latest media bites on health — all in the pursuit of losing a few pounds.
One trend gaining popularity across the country is calorie restriction, which is loosely defined as decreasing one’s calorie intake from one’s current intake. While this may appear to be just another diet at first glance, some health experts are touting calorie restriction as the “fountain of youth.” But for individuals who suffer from eating disorders, this diet serves as the perfect facade to hide behind.
I am both humbled and a little daunted by the invitation to write a blog about body image and eating problems for Psychology Today. For one thing, I'm not a psychologist. And although I have learned a great deal from the field of psychology, I'm not technically trained in this area, nor do I work in a clinical setting. Instead, I am a scholar of religion, trained in theological and religious studies. I teach college students in the upper Midwest, and I have a particular interest in the relationship between religion, gender, embodiment, and culture.
So what does a religion scholar like myself see when she looks at women's manic and often dangerous attempts to reduce the size of their bodies? What new insights might emerge from considering our culture's devotion to thinness through the lens of spirituality and religion?
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The other day I read an article about a fashion model angry that the advertiser for which she posed had Photoshopped her body into an anorexic swizzle.
Filippa Hamilton, who stands 5-foot-10 and weighs a scant 120 pounds, is considered underweight by doctors' standards. She claims Ralph Lauren fired her for being too heavy. In a similar incident, the curvy, weight-battling “American Idol” star Kelly Clarkson said Self magazine digitally altered her cover shot, shaving off curves and thighs, giving her virtual liposuction.
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When fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld recently proclaimed that no one wants to see curvy women in magazines, I could not have agreed with him more. The German couturier who also designs for French fashion brand Chanel made the statement when he heard women's magazine Brigitte was banning skinny models in favour of "real women".
While I find the idea of portraying real women fresh and modern even, let it be known that, to quote Lagerfeld, "fashion is about dreams and illusions".
She was a good student, played basketball and swam. And at the lowest point of her eating disorder Christina Boudreau, then a sophomore in high school, was throwing up eight times a day and contemplating suicide. Now the bright UC Riverside theater major with beaded bracelets and a vibrant dress is hoping to give back to the facility that helped her overcome her disorder and "find herself."
Spice Girl Victoria Beckham may be famous for her marriage to soccer star David Beckham and her high fashion sense, but she's probably best known for her rail-thin figure. It's been reported in the past that Posh has survived by eating little more than edamame, seaweed shakes, and cupcakes, but her latest diet may be the strangest yet.
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After a day of forcing herself to eat nothing but fruit or low-fat jelly, Michelle needs something to help her ignore her body's screaming demands for food and just a click away on her computer are hundreds of people willing to help.
But instead of encouraging her to take care of herself, the websites are devoted to promoting starvation and painful thinness as a perfectly normal way of life instead of as a deadly illness.
The 2009 novel H1N1 (swine flu) virus has raised concerns around the world. We know that nutrition can be a big part of helping the immune system function, and a healthy immune system is more able to defend against infection. So, if you have poor nutrition due to an eating disorder, are you at greater risk of catching H1N1?
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The Government says it is concerned about the growth of pro-anorexia sites and, although it can not ban them, is trying to limit the dangerous impact they can have.
According to the Office for Internet Safety (OIS), which falls under the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform, the best way to limit the impact of websites promoting unhealthy eating habits is to promote alternative websites that offer genuine help and advice.
American women have a problem.
You can't blame it 100 percent on the media, although researchers estimate women see 400 to 600 images each day promoting weight loss, or a "thin look."
Neither are family and friends unduly responsible for this problem. But they have been shown to contribute.
The bottom line is, most women in this country are dissatisfied with their bodies, according to psychologists and nutritionists. Studies show as many as 86 percent of American women want to lose weight, and girls as young as age 5 have been shown to engage in dieting.
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Yesterday morning I had a horrid shock. I went outside and where my bike and my boyfriend's should have been there was instead an empty bike-stand. The planned quiet Saturday-morning ride to the gym followed by some food shopping was suddenly postponed for what felt like hours of wandering round looking hopelessly for bikes or clues, digging out old receipts, ringing the police... We were plagued by the usual feelings of anger (with ourselves and the thieves and by extension the rest of humanity) and sadness at the seclusion of the marina having been violated, and at the loss of the two lovely bicycles - his a present from me, mine a present from my mother. It was all a depressing shock that left us exhausted by teatime, but I compared my reactions, and my ability to deal with them, throughout the day and now, in retrospect, with how it would have been when I was ill.
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When Joanna Elmquist was attending an all-girls’ school as a teenager, “fat talk” was everywhere.
“The girls would say, ‘I’m so fat’ or ‘Does this outfit make me look fat?’” says Elmquist, 22, now a senior at Trinity University. “I could see how it made them more appearance-conscious and ultimately made them feel badly about themselves.”
That’s why Elmquist participates in Fat Talk Free Week, a five-day initiative launched by the international sorority Delta Delta Delta (Tri Delta) to create public awareness of the damaging effect of fat talk, or talk about weight. The campaign kicks off today and runs through Friday.
October, the month when Americans officially celebrate their love affair with candy, marks the start of our end of the year, three month holiday from sensible eating that leaves so many women and girls feeling fat and frustrated on the bleak, morning after known as New Year's Day. Unfortunately, females tend to let bathroom scales define their beauty as a woman and their worth as a person.
According to Thoughts by Dena, an online Web site, "the average American woman is 5-foot-4, weighs 140 pounds and wears a size 14 dress. The 'ideal' woman, portrayed by models, Miss America, Barbie dolls, and screen actresses, is 5-foot-7, weighs 100 pounds and wears a size 8. One third of all American women wear a size 16 or larger."
The road to pop stardom is known to be paved with endless travel, stress and screaming masses of fans - is it now all getting too much for Bill?
Rumours of the star singer's possible eating disorder started online in the Tokio Hotel fan forums after Bill looked unhealthily skinny in an appearance on German television show “Wetten Das...?” two weeks ago.
On the phone to a friend, the talk soon turned to her teenage daughter. At 17 she is beautiful, popular and doing well at school - yet, despite this, she is also, her mother revealed, increasingly unhappy.
Khloe Kardashian is glad she isn’t in Hollywood all by herself — because she’d probably end up with some kind of eating disorder!
The Keeping up With The Kardashians star insists she’s perfectly happy with her weight — but admits she’d probably have some body issues if she didn’t have the support of her curvy sisters.
FORMER model Dena Ashbaugh has seen friends die as they battled eating disorders.
She too spent 30 years fighting anorexia after developing the condition as a child.
Now, three years after getting her health back, she is in New Zealand promoting a film based on her life.
"In New Zealand 80% of women are unhappy with their bodies," Ashbaugh said, "We live in a culture where we feel like we never measure up."
Becoming a body builder saved Bobbie Jo Fatheree’s life.
After seeing her weight drop by more than 100 pounds as she battled anorexia and bulimia, Fatheree needed something to get her diet, and her life, under control.
What worked in getting her life under control was becoming a body builder. This Saturday, Fatheree will take part in her third body building competition. She will compete in the Northern States Natural Classic Body Building and Figure Competition at Elk River (Minn.) High School.
It was a fashion show unlike most: Seven models ranging from thin to plus size walked the runway yesterday where Montreal Fashion Week had just wrapped up.
They were role models for Quebec's new charter for a healthy and diverse body image, unveiled yesterday by Christine St-Pierre, the minister responsible for culture, communications and the status of women, along with members of a working group of media, doctors, designers, industry and modeling representatives.Ralph Lauren has apologized, but that doesn't mean blogs or feminist groups are about to let go of the grotesque retouch job on a fashion shot that makes the model's waist look like it was sqeezed into an illegal torture device. Her hips appear narrower than her head, as blog Boing Boing pointed out, and her thighs look like they came straight from a classroom skeleton. The clothing company eventually confessed to the mistake, saying it was having a bad Photoshop day.
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Australian Consolidated Press launched one-off health magazine Your Body this week. The magazine aims to help women live a healthy, balanced life and covers everything from nutrition, stress management, relationships and emotional wellbeing to health and fitness.
An article in Your Body titled 'Allergy or Anxiety; the rise of the 30-something eating disorder' explores food intolerance as a judgement free way of restricting food intake. This article is a must read for anyone who knows someone suffering food intolerance as while many women suffer from genuine conditions, others use this as a convenient excuse to avoid certain types of food.
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Designer Christian Louboutin thinks the already unrealistically thin Barbie doll's legs are too heavy and is redesigning a newer, thinner version due out in the states next year. This move may help to fuel the already rising incidence of eating disorders among women in the U.S. who strive to obtain impossibly thin figures.
The new Barbie will have even thinner legs because Louboutin found the doll’s “…ankles too fat,” according to the New York Daily News.
Jackie Warner, one of the choicest reality TV lesbians of the modern era, is set to follow her first show Work Out with another Bravo reality program, this one entitled Thintervention with Jackie Warner. Catchy! Fierce! Totally ignorant of common, anorexia-related “thin” wordplay!
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Her reaction is on target, says body-image expert Jess Weiner, who speaks about the eating disorders that began for her at age 11.
"Every single person here wonders whether they've got the right body or the right look," says Weiner, who writes a body-image column for Seventeen magazine. She spoke to more than 200 tween girls, ages 9-14, gathered for the first National Tween Girl Summit here over the weekend.
Karl Lagerfeld is not afraid to make a bold statement. Usually it’s his clothes doing the talking, but this week the German fashion designer commented on the “size-zero debate”, saying people prefer to look at rail thin high fashion models, and the only ones who don’t are “fat mothers with their bags of chips sitting in front of the television”.
71 year old Lagerfeld is the creative director of Chanel and has designed costumes for Madonna’s Re-Invention tour and Kylie’s Showgirl tour. His comments come after magazine Brigitte announced that it would no longer use professional models in its pages, because its readers could not relate to them.
