It began with a diet, undertaken in an attempt to turn the tide of a growing dissatisfaction with her body. She thought she was being healthy – counting calories, weighing her food on a Weight Watchers scale. But, then it evolved into something different…
Each year, on Nov. 11, the date of their daughter Tara’s birthday, John and Maureen Sheehan hold “Run For Tara,” an event to raise money for eating disorder awareness in memory of Tara’s death from anorexia.
Fewer than 50,000 cases of H1N1 were reported last year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, yet this potentially deadly strain of flu was treated as a national emergency. In contrast, millions of college students have eating disorders, yet most of them receive little or no medical attention or psychological intervention.
Urban Outfitters and Walden Behavioral Health Care Clinic are unlikely building mates. While one is a perpetuator of the thin, hipster-chic body image that dominates the fashion world, the other addresses a reality often related to this image, an issue with which most young women have dealt either directly or indirectly in their lives by the time they graduate from college.
MetroWest Daily News December 2010 Walden Behavioral Care LLC of Waltham, one of the country’s leading hospitals for treating eating disorders, announces it…
All anyone has to do is glance at the cover of any number of magazines to see that the Western World is obsessed with beauty, glamour and sex appeal. Unfortunately the message is often sent that nothing less than perfection will do…