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.
