Eating Disorders

29 Apr 2012

Drop Dead Healthy
by A.J. Jacobs
Simon & Schuster (audiobook)

1:44PM

In the thin of it: understanding adolescents and eating disorders

11 Mar 2012

Our 15-year-old daughter Stacy has almost stopped eating. When she does eat she cuts her food into tiny pieces or just pushes it around her plate. Her weight has dropped dramatically.

9:47AM

Too much of a good thing

10 Jan 2012

There comes a point when eating healthy becomes an obsession that's not healthy at all - and I say this from first-hand experience.

5:01AM

Fixing celebrity photos is dangerous

12 Oct 2011

Have you ever wondered why models and celebrities always look perfect in fashion magazines? It's because most pictures in the media are digitally enhanced, in a bid to make the subject look as...

9:53PM

Winning tale of a binge battle

12 Jul 2011

When I was 27, I consumed a large pizza, a medium lasagne and half a cheesecake in one sitting. My monstrous meal lasted 40 minutes, and when I was done, I chugged a bottle of cola and cried.

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2:34PM

Helping HK families cope with a hidden illness

13 Jan 2011

When Dr Sing Lee first looked into anorexia in Hong Kong 20 years ago, he found it occurred mostly in women suffering from clinical depression.

7:10AM

Opinion

Attempts to diversify China's reserves have been a disaster

4:45AM

Howard Winn

China is like the EU; provinces are its member states

5:26AM

health

Reading comprehension

Answer the following questions

1 From his experience, Dr Sing finds that ...

a. men are more prone to eating disorders than women...

10:56AM

Unhealthy phenomenon we can no longer avoid

In the 1990s, Western communities were locked in debate over the propriety of images in the media which seemed to glamorise models who looked unhealthily thin rather than radiantly beautiful....

11:12AM

What to look for and how to help

Between 2000 and 2008, the Hong Kong Eating Disorders Association identified 1,170 cases of eating disorders from more than 2,300 inquiries on its hotline.

11:32AM

Unbalanced minds

A new intriguing idea about the pernicious influence of the West on the rest of the world is to be found in the work of an author who is not even concerned with such fantasies as neo-liberalism,...

6:27AM

The sad side of thinness

This week Andrew Lam Kun-hoa, 13

Andrew asks: How can we help someone with anorexia?

Wynnie says: Eating disorders affect both girls and boys. According to the...

9:06PM

Hunger is not attractive

More and more teenagers are including weight loss on their New Year wish list.

While many girls and boys still want 'to be punctual, to concentrate on school work and to stop...

3:56PM