Articles Tagged: eating disorders

Are we giving our children mixed messages about diet and body image?

By Lucy Jolin, May 17, 2012

We're all concerned about the lessons kids learn from magazines which celebrate skinny celebs and highlight a new crazy diet every week. But perhaps we need to look a bit closer to home.

Teenager appeals for money for bionic stomach after vomiting 50 times a day

By Kelly Rose Bradford, Jan 17, 2012

A fifteen-year-old girl who throws up fifty times a day is trying to raise money to undergo 'bionic stomach' surgery.

Anorexic 5st mum wears same size clothes as 7 year old daughter

By Kelly Rose Bradford, Nov 8, 2011

A severely anorexic mum has told a magazine how she wears the same size clothes as her SEVEN YEAR OLD daughter.

Primary school girls skipping meals to keep weight down

By Kelly Rose Bradford, Oct 31, 2011

Girl as young as primary-school age are missing meals in an attempt to keep their weight down, a study has found.

Advert for Kate Moss slogan T-shirt for children banned by Advertising Standards Association

By Kelly Rose Bradford, Aug 10, 2011

An advert for a kids' t-shirt with Kate Moss's famous 'nothing tastes as good as skinny feels' slogan has been banned.

Eating disorders delay pregnancy

By Liz Stansfield, Aug 4, 2011

Women who have suffered eating disorders in the past might struggle to conceive when they try to get pregnant, new research suggests.

Five-year-old girls being treated in hospital for anorexia

By Kelly Rose Bradford, Aug 1, 2011

Statistics released by NHS trusts around the country have revealed that children as young as FIVE are being treated for anorexia.

Cravings in pregnancy - mum-to-be can't stop eating furniture polish

By Kelly Rose Bradford, Jul 18, 2011

Coal, chalk, pickled onions and gherkins. Standard pregnancy-craving fayre. But furniture polish? It's a new one on us, but something mum-to-be Emma Veness, 26, just can't get enough off...