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Press Clippings and Media Coverage

Many more press clippings to come!


Here is our growing resource of articles related to eating disorders, body image, and other important issues. If you find any articles that you find significant and interesting, please clip them and send them to us!

November 02, 2002 - Web Sites Promote Anorexia and Bulimia as a 'Lifestyle': Experts worry these sites may fuel eating disorder crisis - Health Scout News

October 31, 2002 - The Kate Moss effect - Health Scout News

October 03, 2002 - Globalization of Beauty Makes Slimness Trendy - The New York Times

Sept 08, 2002 - A Secret Society of the Starving - If you aren't aware of the recent "Pro-Eating Disorders" phenomenon, check out this article by Mim Udovitch from the New York TImes Magazine.

August 27, 2002 - Jamie Lee Curtis has nothing to hide - The San Francisco Chronicle

August 20, 2002 - Bush sides with oppressors on women's rights abroad - International Herald Tribune

August 11, 2002 - SOMA fashion spread crosses the line - The San Francisco Chronicle

July 12, 2002 - Idealized Women in TV Ads Make Girls Feel Bad - Yahoo News

June 27, 2002 - TV Causes Anorexia - unknowncountry.com

May 21, 2002 - Teen Mag Editor Promotes Healthy Body Image - WOMENSENEWS

May 06, 2002 - Dance Instructor Wins Weight Discrimination Battle - KPIX - with links to the prior coverage also listed below

April 11, 2002 - Men could learn a few things from the bonobos - The Plain Dealer, Cleveland, Ohio - submitted by a visitor

March 31, 2002 - The Tyranny of Skinny, Fashion's Insider Secret - The New York Times

March 1, 2002 - Can You Be Both Fit and Fat? - KPIX, see original article below.

February 29, 2002 - Diets banished from popular teen mag YM - Seattle Post-Intelligencer Staff and News Services - Read an interview of Christina Kelly, Editor-in-chief of YM by Girls Inc.

February 28, 2002 - Jean Kilbourne on Oprah: Teen Dating Abuse & Media - www.mediaed.org

February 24, 2002 - Teacher says fat, fitness can mix/S.F. mediates complaint Jazzercise showed bias - The San Francisco Chronicle

February 18, 2002 - Overweight Teens May Go to Extremes to Shed Pounds - Reuters

January, 27 2002 - Who wants what? Freud's question, "What do women want?" still perplexes. For that matter, what do men want. - SF Gate article, About-Face mentioned!

December 12, 2001 - (Women's Magazines) How low can they go? - Salon.com

September 10, 2001 - (Teen Magazines) Trash mags with training wheels - Salon.com

September 02, 2001 - Little Women; Retailers' Efforts to Court Teens and 'Tweens' Include Lingerie Shops for the Junior-High Set - Washington Post

May 15, 2001 - Golden Girl Uma admits to having Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD) - talksurgery.com

May 05, 2000 - Women's magazines are dead - Salon.com

February 15, 2000 - Beware of "women's culture" - Salon.com

February 2, 1998 - Kellogs new woman positive advertising campaign - PR Newswire

May 22, 1997 - Drugged Look in Fashion Ads Angers Clinton - The New York Times

July 16, 1997 - Pursuing Perfection, Dancing with Death: Eating Disorders Haunt Ballerinas - The New York Times

July 11, 1997 - Quest to Be Thin Fells Ballerina: Sudden death may be linked to eating disorder - The San Francisco Chronicle

 



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