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nachiketa1
Banned
giselle bundchen
PistachioByAzul
Diamond Member
You have to fit the mold to be worth anything, to be deserving of love. That's the message the media sends out.
johnjohn320
Diamond Member
I'm pretty sure the people who made this website simply have a sick sense of humor, I doubt they're actually 'pro-ana.'
<---'s sister was anorexic. 🙁
<---'s sister was anorexic. 🙁
geoff2k
Golden Member
I doubt it is meant to be satire. Unfortunatley, there are many pro-anorexia sites out there. Salon has even had a pro-anorexia (!) article:
Salon Article
Here's a WebMD article on the pro-ana trend:
WebMD Article
Scary stuff.
(Sigh, multiple edits to get links right)
Salon Article
Here's a WebMD article on the pro-ana trend:
WebMD Article
Scary stuff.
(Sigh, multiple edits to get links right)
bah, anyone that doesn't think its a satire is a bit gulliable me thinks😛 talk about a negative portrayel of skinny people😛 talk about the sh*ttiest pics they could pick for promoting thin peeps😛 i'm surprised they didn't include death camp pics and african famine victims😛
anyways, women do it to themselves.
do you see emciated women in mens magazines? 😛
there are no anorexics in poor countries😛
anyways, women do it to themselves.
do you see emciated women in mens magazines? 😛
there are no anorexics in poor countries😛
PistachioByAzul
Diamond Member
Nefrodite, if you read their message board, it doesn't look like satire to me.
The WebMD article:
Aug. 2, 2001 -- The visitors, almost all of them young women in their teens and 20s, visit the Web sites by the thousands each day. All are struggling with body image issues and many have full-blown eating disorders. They come, incredibly enough, not to find help, but to find allies in their battle against their perceived fatness.
Pro-anorexia Web sites have proliferated on the Internet within the last two years, and there are now hundreds of them with names like Dying to be Thin and Pro Ana (for anorexic) Sanctuary. Most warn people who are trying to recover from eating disorders to stay away, but experts say the message is lost on those who are desperate to have their weight-loss obsessions validated, such as this visitor:
"My parents have been making me talk to this counselor once a week, but I continue to lose weight. I tried to hide that but my family and friends notice. Now they say if I don't gain two pounds in the next week, the doctor is putting me in an eating disorder clinic. What do I do?? I can't gain the weight. I am so close to where I want to be. And I don't want to be in some clinic. Do any of you have any advice that could help me?"
At 5'6" tall and 101 pounds, the young girl posting this message in mid July at the Yahoo! chat room My Friend Ana is between 20 and 40 pounds underweight, according to standard weight tables. But the "advice" she received included drinking huge amounts of water prior to her weigh-in and hiding rolls of pennies in her underwear.
"I am appalled when I see these sites, which present eating disorders as normal," Vivian Hanson Meehan, RN, president of the National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders, or ANAD, tells WebMD. "Young people struggling with this issue want to believe family and friends are wrong when they tell them they are too thin or they should eat. Anorexia is a deadly disease, but these sites treat it as a choice."
According to ANAD figures, 7 million women and 1 million men in the U.S. suffer from eating disorders. More than 80% have developed the illness by age 20, and 6% of serious sufferers -- those who are repeatedly hospitalized -- die from it.
While many of the sites claim to promote healthy weight loss, most of the sites visited for this story contained tips to help anorexics and bulimics hone their skills. For example, one site found through Yahoo!, called The Perfect Body, proclaims anorexia to be "a lifestyle, not a disease" and offers readers "tricks" to help other food-averse visitors hide their disease. Here are some examples:
When you are watched while eating, or in my case w/ your parents, put the food in your mouth and spit it out in your cup while u pretend u r drinking, so they won't know, they'll just think u r drinking. -- Steph
When you go to restaurants or a party or something and you are served, play with your food a lot, if you have to eat. Eat only when someone is looking, and put some food in a napkin. That is exactly what I did on my birthday with the cake. ... But you really have to be careful, cause there really aren't any good explanations on why you put your food in a napkin.
WebMD contacted Yahoo! for the company's view about these sites. A company spokeswoman read this prepared statement:
"The Internet is a rapidly growing medium and, as is true elsewhere in our society, we and our users are struggling with society's most challenging issues," she read. "When content with the sole purpose of promoting harm is brought to our attention, we will evaluate it and in extreme cases remove it. Although this issue affects an extremely small portion of our overall user base, it is something we take very seriously."
Judy Sargent, 33, tells WebMD that these pro-anorexia Web sites "give people ideas about how to best starve themselves or purge, and they make it seem like a game. ... People don't realize how dangerous anorexia is and how much it will take from their life."
Sargent should know. She struggled with anorexia for a decade and was hospitalized 26 times. Three of those times, she wound up in intensive care, and she watched three close friends die from eating disorders. Now a registered nurse, she has written a book about her illness titled The Long Road Back: A Survivor's Guide to Anorexia.
"I ended up with no friends and no life, locked behind closed doors in a psychiatric ward," she says. "All my friends had gone on to college or had married, and I had none of those things. Eventually eating disorders consume your whole life. They don't lead to happiness. They take everything away."
The WebMD article:
Aug. 2, 2001 -- The visitors, almost all of them young women in their teens and 20s, visit the Web sites by the thousands each day. All are struggling with body image issues and many have full-blown eating disorders. They come, incredibly enough, not to find help, but to find allies in their battle against their perceived fatness.
Pro-anorexia Web sites have proliferated on the Internet within the last two years, and there are now hundreds of them with names like Dying to be Thin and Pro Ana (for anorexic) Sanctuary. Most warn people who are trying to recover from eating disorders to stay away, but experts say the message is lost on those who are desperate to have their weight-loss obsessions validated, such as this visitor:
"My parents have been making me talk to this counselor once a week, but I continue to lose weight. I tried to hide that but my family and friends notice. Now they say if I don't gain two pounds in the next week, the doctor is putting me in an eating disorder clinic. What do I do?? I can't gain the weight. I am so close to where I want to be. And I don't want to be in some clinic. Do any of you have any advice that could help me?"
At 5'6" tall and 101 pounds, the young girl posting this message in mid July at the Yahoo! chat room My Friend Ana is between 20 and 40 pounds underweight, according to standard weight tables. But the "advice" she received included drinking huge amounts of water prior to her weigh-in and hiding rolls of pennies in her underwear.
"I am appalled when I see these sites, which present eating disorders as normal," Vivian Hanson Meehan, RN, president of the National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders, or ANAD, tells WebMD. "Young people struggling with this issue want to believe family and friends are wrong when they tell them they are too thin or they should eat. Anorexia is a deadly disease, but these sites treat it as a choice."
According to ANAD figures, 7 million women and 1 million men in the U.S. suffer from eating disorders. More than 80% have developed the illness by age 20, and 6% of serious sufferers -- those who are repeatedly hospitalized -- die from it.
While many of the sites claim to promote healthy weight loss, most of the sites visited for this story contained tips to help anorexics and bulimics hone their skills. For example, one site found through Yahoo!, called The Perfect Body, proclaims anorexia to be "a lifestyle, not a disease" and offers readers "tricks" to help other food-averse visitors hide their disease. Here are some examples:
When you are watched while eating, or in my case w/ your parents, put the food in your mouth and spit it out in your cup while u pretend u r drinking, so they won't know, they'll just think u r drinking. -- Steph
When you go to restaurants or a party or something and you are served, play with your food a lot, if you have to eat. Eat only when someone is looking, and put some food in a napkin. That is exactly what I did on my birthday with the cake. ... But you really have to be careful, cause there really aren't any good explanations on why you put your food in a napkin.
WebMD contacted Yahoo! for the company's view about these sites. A company spokeswoman read this prepared statement:
"The Internet is a rapidly growing medium and, as is true elsewhere in our society, we and our users are struggling with society's most challenging issues," she read. "When content with the sole purpose of promoting harm is brought to our attention, we will evaluate it and in extreme cases remove it. Although this issue affects an extremely small portion of our overall user base, it is something we take very seriously."
Judy Sargent, 33, tells WebMD that these pro-anorexia Web sites "give people ideas about how to best starve themselves or purge, and they make it seem like a game. ... People don't realize how dangerous anorexia is and how much it will take from their life."
Sargent should know. She struggled with anorexia for a decade and was hospitalized 26 times. Three of those times, she wound up in intensive care, and she watched three close friends die from eating disorders. Now a registered nurse, she has written a book about her illness titled The Long Road Back: A Survivor's Guide to Anorexia.
"I ended up with no friends and no life, locked behind closed doors in a psychiatric ward," she says. "All my friends had gone on to college or had married, and I had none of those things. Eventually eating disorders consume your whole life. They don't lead to happiness. They take everything away."
Pepsi90919
Lifer
wtf
Southerncentralrain
Senior member
Can somebody help me? I can't seem to find the link to BulimicBeauties.com. I think I saw one of their commercials...Got Vomit???
Bignate603
Lifer
I think if any of those girls fall over they'll shatter.
johnjohn320
Diamond Member
Hahaha. 😀
I know it's sick, but damn it, that was funny!
That site has really made me feel sick. Did anyone read the journal? Whoever the people are they need help. And presenting Anorexia as a GOOD thing is definitely utterly and completely wrong.
For those that haven't looked at the journal
Sunday, July 14, 2002
It?s 4:15 am and I can?t sleep. I?m beyond depressed. I?ve been sooo cold and tired that words won?t do my feelings justice. It?s the negative effects of Ana. Speaking of negative, I?ve been having chest pains that actually make me wonder about my heart. But I?d be dead already if the pain were caused by something serious.
I was in D.C. last night looking for some old friends. There?s lots of partying in the Nations Capitol on Saturday night. Lots of fat drunks. I wish I could just eat, drink and be merry. Everyone else does it without so much as a second thought. But no, I have to battle with my body whenever I get hungry. The worst part of it is that I always feel fat, even with a BMI of 17. I guess I?ve got to lose more weight. What an obvious solution. It always works!
Sick people....... 🙁
For those that haven't looked at the journal
Sunday, July 14, 2002
It?s 4:15 am and I can?t sleep. I?m beyond depressed. I?ve been sooo cold and tired that words won?t do my feelings justice. It?s the negative effects of Ana. Speaking of negative, I?ve been having chest pains that actually make me wonder about my heart. But I?d be dead already if the pain were caused by something serious.
I was in D.C. last night looking for some old friends. There?s lots of partying in the Nations Capitol on Saturday night. Lots of fat drunks. I wish I could just eat, drink and be merry. Everyone else does it without so much as a second thought. But no, I have to battle with my body whenever I get hungry. The worst part of it is that I always feel fat, even with a BMI of 17. I guess I?ve got to lose more weight. What an obvious solution. It always works!
Sick people....... 🙁
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