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Well, body image issues are also just part and parcel of early adolescence/puberty, as well. There's a huge difference between body dysmorphic disorder and plain old "my body is changing drastically, my hormones are raging, this is all quite traumatic" teen angst. It's a good thing you waited...

I love avocados, but they give me migraines. It's on a whole list, with most of my other favorite foods: bananas, olives, capers, red wine, almonds, chocolate, etc. I've noticed I can get past this if I have just one thing per day, but if I mix two off the list, I'm done for. French foods, which...

Not a fan of her sound, but Joanna Newsom is a pretty indie musician, and a talented harpist

Eveerryybody does I'm sure. For me, as long as I don't feel shitty, I don't care what I look like. But if I feel shitty, then I'm convinced I look shitty as well. This is where the whole plastic surgery debate becomes relevant to medicine. Can it be a boon to self-image or does it just create...

Well, my only problem with this idea of taking fat kids away from parents is: what if it's a thyroid and/or cortisol problem? What if it's a leptin problem? You often won't be able to find out until puberty or later, or sometimes not until extensive genetic testing is done. Sometimes the cause...

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Exactly. On top of all that, they're narcissists who probably think they can get away with more than other people. But you almost have to be one to make those kinds of life and death decisions. It's like the one about surgeons--what's the difference between a surgeon and God? God doesn't think...

I know, I was a vegetarian for most of my life until my doctor told me that was the worst thing I could do for my brain, and I used to eat well, still do eat mostly plants and I usually avoid McDonald's. It's just I had to get stitches last week, with anesthesia, and then I had a couple of...

It's hard isn't to constantly be thinking of things this way? I want to specialize in psychiatry and I still obsess about this shit. But if you think your crusade will be over once you're around doctors, you can think again. I used to work across the street from Sloan Kettering, the world's...

Yup. I feel the same way about anything that is made of wheat.

oh and let's not forget Dairy Queen also I'm prehypertensive and three out of four of my grandparents have heart disease

good points I eat terribly I have to admit. I've had McDonald's three times in three days.

That Blonde Redhead girl plays bass, or she did once when I saw them... can't find any pictures. There's one:

The social studies mafia sees a phenomenon, and because they have decided that everything is caused by these nebulous entities that they call "social" or "cultural" forces, they believe that they can simply explain anything and everything away using these vague, elliptical terms without further...

Another reason why anorexia was only diagnosed in affluent white women: they were the only ones who could afford the diagnosis.

Anorexia nervosa was primarily diagnosed in affluent white women, until more recently. This could be partially due to the social biases of clinicians--it's usually believed that thin men are just naturally thin, because men aren't naturally concerned with body image. (Not true, it turns out.) If...

But anorexics have a mental illness that is related to obsessive-compulsive disorder and which leads them to ritualistic behavioral compulsions that are anxiety and fear based. Anorexics are fat- and food-phobic. Anorexia has been around for a very long time. There is no evidence that media...

We have everything--even the info that tells us that it is, indeed, healthier and better for everyone if we maintain lower BMIs and diets lower in saturated and trans fats, the money and resources to maintain our own health--and what do we do?? Bitch about how hard it is not to be beautiful.

body image rant Not to derail the thread or anything with a body image rant, but I love how people bitch and whine about how thin celebrities are, and how bad this is for people, when 80% of the U.S. population is overweight or obese, while only about 2%-5% (at the very most) are anorexic or...

Who is Beth Ditto? (googles) Oh! Yeah ha she's awesome, very pink flamingos.