Tuesday, October 20, 2009

'I thought I'd put on 7 lbs in weight if I ate a biscuit -- and these websites agreed'

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.

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