I just have a quick blog post for today. My alerts have stopped turning up so many things that are new. I'm thinking that's a good thing: I'm becoming more and more educated.
A new study on the brain turned up this information: Exposure to pictures of very thin women change the way we think. In a similar study showed that, when a women was given a picture of an overweight model and was told that it resembled her, her brain began computing in a different way. Exposure to things like that increase womens' risk of developing an eating disorder. There was also something peculiar on the news: "Drunkorexia" has become a fad among college students. It is simply the act of switching food out for alcohol. The only problem is is that the students will get drunk on an empty stomach, then feel bad about it later and vomit. Also, people who are thinking about adopting anorexia or bulimia, think twice: studies show that it can severely damage your vision.
To end my post, I thought I'd share a little something I saw in my alerts that horrified me: An overweight mom (with a genetic probability to turn out so) put her daughter on a restricted diet when she was just two, in fear that she would grow to be overweight. Corleigh, the daughter, is restricted to an intake of 700 calories; 1000 less than the suggested intake of a girl her age. Its sad, because the report commented on how the girl's ribs were protruding (which we all know, they shouldn't). The funny thing is, the mother binged on junk food all day long, while Corleigh wasn't allowed to touch it or even visit her friends' houses because of her mother's fear that she would eat "junk" food. Her mother claimed that she'd rather her child have an eating disorder than be overweight!
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