National Eating Disorders Awareness Week 2010: "It's Time to Talk About It"

More women suffer from anorexia and bulimia than breast cancer. Eating disorders (ED's) affect women, men, and children of all races and ages and have the highest mortality rate of any other mental illness.



The beginning of the end

From a very young age my father criticized every woman who was not model thin. From their weight, to their clothes, to their restaurant meal choice, nothing was off limits. I recall his comments and disgust with uncanny clarity. My mother made disparaging...