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Introduction
This article examines the emergence of an eating disorder Web sites. Eating disorders are more common in young women, including teenagers and young adults (). Because this population is also a high-level members of the Internet "aware of the proliferation of online eating disorder (ED) is of particular importance to community support groups ED (ANAD 2006). Community eating disorders are known as" pro-ana , Pro (-anorexic) and is the expression, both for their community andto describe an individual. While the pro-ana is used for a person who is pro-anorexia "Bulimics use the term to describe pro-mia (pro bulimia). In this definition, people who like" to identify the pro-anorexia "or" Pro-Bulimic embrace their eating disorder is generally regarded as a lifestyle choice and not a disease or disorder. Pro-ana communities are not generally limited to anorexia and bulimia usually contain, and other eating disorders are suffering within the community.
Pro-Ana sitespresent themselves as the online community for those who are already anorexic and as such are not intended (as is often assumed), not to attract those affected in the disease. For people who join them, they can, "a place", their status, without moral censure or social stigma and a place for advice, suggestions and support from fellow anorexics to help them accept themselves "better" anorexics. While some of the pro-ana sites are also links to sites of recovery and health,"Pro-Ana" is not a choice to enter the recovery. To pro-anorexic, if it is identified as "pro-Ana", then, by definition, is chosen as anorexia or bulimia to live in this moment. The term "permarexic 'can also be used for people who choose to live with their description of the ED for the foreseeable future.
Eating Disorders Overview
Eating disorders (hormone system) by the concern for the weight that results in serious disturbances in eating andLater, other behaviors. Eating disorders include anorexia, bulimia and eating disorders generic, such as purging, binging and eating during the night. The two high-profile eating disorders are anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa. Anorexia can be seen as essentially self-starvation is defined as the refusal of the disease, a minimal normal body weight, distorted body image and fear of obesity or weight gain (also retain CEED 2006). People who have anorexia develop unusual eating normallyHabits, such as avoiding food and meals, taking some food and eat in small amounts, weighing their food, count calories and eat everything. The incidence is increasing in the Western world and has been described as one of the deadliest psychiatric diseases (Lucas et al 1999, Hsu 2001). People suffering from bulimia are involved in repeated episodes of binge eating are trying opportunities that await detoxify the food from the body to avoid weight gain with use, followedMethods, such as self-induced vomiting, misuse of laxatives, enemas, fasting or drugs and / or excessive exercise to control weight (CEED 2006).
Common aspects of a Pro-Ana Website
In search of this article, I had to spend a few hours left for dead and search for hard-work, to care, I came across some sites of operation that eating disorders exist. The nature of public attitudes toward many of these sites is thatthey need to change the addresses to always avoid blame, or to join voluntarily as a result of harassment and flaming, or are voluntarily closed by their ISPs. The Pro-Ana communities fail, due to frequent changes in Web sites and the placement of new Internet addresses remain within their group living community.
Author Diaries Many of these sites offer personal accounts of their struggle against anorexia or bulimia and how to fight against hunger, as they feelhis body and image, as you struggle to control herself and her self-image. While the intention of some might be inspired to lose weight with the readers of the site, a battle, and even disgust and mortification of the authors has anorexia or bulimia all seem interesting. The diaries are also places to keep records of food intake as well as "air" for the efforts of negative family or friends in order to recover the bloggers of the disease,or the struggles they hide their lack of food from the rest of the world.
Discussion forum for members can use their diet, their weight and their feelings. The forums also serve as a source of food and diet support, the sharing of information somewhere, their feelings openly in a nonjudgmental environment. I looked at the members as very supportive and protective of each other.
Tools Weight Loss: BMI(Body Mass Index) calculators, homeopathic remedies and pharmaceutical pills. However, the Google search on a given day, similar data will be transmitted, on many pages are in no way associated with pro-ana.
Food & Beverage Notes: blood glucose meter, calorie counter, lists of foods that have a negative calorie recipes for beverages and foods. In fact, everything that you can buy, on average, women or girls magazine 'in the local newsagent.
PACU:A forum specifically for the restoration of suffering eating disorders. I just found this on some locations.
The most militant pro-ana Web sites contain a rule would be part of these additional attributes:
Tips and tricks: For the most part, a list of methods, tricks and tips on how to facilitate the process of starvation. You may provide clues to hidden weight loss of relatives, and as a weekly weigh-in, if the parents are a teenager or a dietitianCounselor. These lists may also be the explicit information about how to take meals with the fewest complaints, or anything else, to experience vomiting, faster, and spent lists which foods are easier to clean. This section also contains suggestions on ways to avoid eating and not getting caught (eg, early and give Rinse corn and milk in a bowl and leave a little 'in the sink so your parents think you've eaten before them).
Thinspiration does exactlywhat the name says: to encourage readers to be subtle, the implementation of these objectives Pictures sickly thin models and movie stars. Favorites are the images of the models of young stars, including ten stars Lindsay Lohan, Mischa Barton and Nicole Ritchie. Thinspiration may be too fat and objects, famous people and the amount of weight, and the start of citations as "nothing tastes as good as feeling thin or hinder food Progresso. Some sites also encourage pro-anaUsing a personal book Thinspiration "Always carry a means of storage if the person is not near a computer or suggesting the use of wristbands, which (especially the average eating disorders and remind the wearer of their status for example red. Bulilmia anorexia that is to say, and purple). Less militant Web sites do not contain 'Thinspiration' and can also advice and precautions that users should not be prohibited, if they give advice, vomiting, hiding their food, etc. Furthermore,They may also be more information available on related areas such as the risk of dental problems, heart disease and diabetes as potentially dangerous for ED.
Ana is my "friend"
The pro-anorexia websites are able to eat an unparalleled level of experts have trouble understanding the world of their patients, revealed an obsession with the disease, which surprises even veteran observers of eating disorder. For example, in some cases, the youngestStakeholders can be observed in order to personalize their disease and its "Ana" (or "Mia" for girls with symptoms of bulimia), and some girls too, as a kind of worship God's name "
I tried to rest once and I put on weight as my savior Mia came back to me when I needed it most (Anon rescue Bulimic)
Pro-ana sites and support
I found it to be Degree of pro-ana sites. While some do not recognizePossibility of recovery, the other Member States have acknowledged that some stakeholders would like to recover from his illness and, as such, focuses on the support and the community rather than advice about diet. In this way, they provide an important forum for what can be both a marginalized and misunderstood segment of society. For young girls who suffer from social stigma and misunderstanding of their disease by eating disorder can easily with others who can communicate their problems to be a big relief:
I am aactive bulimia, and I know that I had serious problems right now, if they are not in contact with other mias / Anas through the pages I've been on. It 'really need to get your thoughts and feelings in some way, and the pages are a good way to do this ... (Anon Bulimic) I believe that these sites would have eliminated the deletion of a valuable network of support that we go and not a disease, but with our lives. Most of these people can not support from family or friends, and thesePages are where they are going through what we go through to speak freely, without evaluating (Anon EdNOS Sufferer). However, it is precisely this aspect of community and belonging, and as with an eating disorder that some experts worried. Pro-ana community, in this case may inadvertently promote eating disorders, since the opportunity, the environment and belong to the work "club eating disorder" on. Other experts agree with the thesis that these "pro" eating disorderSites potentially lethal because they are too normalize and confirm exactly the behavior that defines the disease (Hayashi 2006, the National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and disorders associated site ANAD).
Abstract
In a democratic society, people use the Internet to make healthy and questionable alliances, that is the nature of the medium. While some argue that the pro-ana sites should be closed, others question the ethics of censorship and simply sayProhibition of them is not the problem. For people who are pro-anorexia and bulimia are eating disorders are a lifestyle choice and pro-ana sites are a support group for people who use them. But to see so many others, including relatives and friends of ED patients and the medical and psychological experts, the concept of pro-eating disorder community as a wire disturbing and dangerous, arguing-ana Web sites have the function of standardization, which is a disease and "It 'ok to do"Be anorexic. I believe that this connection to the Internet and eating disorders is not well understood and is an area requiring further research and ongoing.
Glossary of Terms
Ana - Anorexia Nervosa or Mia Bella - bulimia.
Admitting Pro-Pro-Anas and Mias - Bulimics and anorexia, the embrace of his illness as a way of life, refuses, which are thin, and training to workWeight loss.
Permarexic - a person that the decision is only enough food that he did live to maintain a standard of living and this has been adopted as a philosophy of life.
Rexi - a term used by anorexics who believe they live in a controlled way of life, as opposed to Anas, the Rexi believe they are ill.
Act Thinspiration - quotes or pictures of very thin models or movie stars, remains a source of inspiration forthin.
ED - eating disorder.
ED-NOS - Eating Disorder not otherwise specified (vomiting, diarrhea, binge eating).
Selected Bibliography
American Psychiatric Association: In: Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (APA DSM-IV), (2000), Fourth Edition, Text Revision. Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Association Press.
Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Eating Disorders. Inc.Website
Hsu, LK(2001). "Pathogenesis of Anorexia Nervosa", Hong Kong Journal of Psychiatry, Vol 11, No. 3, S. 7-12.
MedlinePlus: Eating Disorders Website National Institutes of Health National Library of Medicine website.
National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders (ANAD) PO Box 7, Highland Park, IL 60035th United States, see their website.
The National Eating Disorders Association (NEDA) website.
National Institutes of Health Web site:"Eating Disorders" Pew Internet & American Life Project (2001), 'Teenage Life Online: The Rise of the Instant Message Generation and the impact of the Internet on friendships and family relationships.
The Center for Excellence in Eating Disorders, Royal Children's Hospital, Victoria Australia (CEED) website.
© Angela Lewis 2006
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