Pittsburgh mom says daughter bulled into anorexia

A woman has filed what experts believe is a first-of-its-kind lawsuit against the Pittsburgh Public Schools, claiming her daughter developed anorexia because male students bullied the girl about her weight, forcing her to leave the district.

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Key Points of French Anorexia Bill

Key points of a bill, "Draft law aimed at fighting incitement to extreme thinness or anorexia," passed Tuesday by the French lower house of parliament:

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French bill takes aim at those who glamorize the ultra-thin

In image-conscious France, it may soon be a crime to glamorize the ultra-thin. A new French bill cracks down on Web sites that advise anorexics on how to starve — and could be used to hit fashion industry heavyweights, too.

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French Fashion Industry Against Anorexia

Key members of the French fashion industry signed a government-backed charter Wednesday aimed at fighting against anorexia and promoting healthy body images.

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Italy Starts Anti-Anorexia Campaign

Italian authorities are mounting a $1.5 million campaign against a growing epidemic of anorexia and other eating disorders in a country known for its fashion industry and image consciousness.

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Campaign Targets Anorexic Models

The Italian government and fashion industry joined forces Saturday in a campaign against anorexic models, which includes attention to the "full-bodied" and a commitment to add larger sizes to collections.

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Model Kate Moss has been criticised by campaigners after saying she lives by a slogan which encourages people with anorexia not to eat.

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An interesting list

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Ralph Lauren put out an ad which consisted of a retouched photo of a model. The model is made to look impossibly thin, such that her proportions seem anatomically improbable.

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As the start of London Fashion Week reignites the debate over ultra-thin models, psychiatrists have called on the British government to act over the soaring numbers of pro-anorexia websites.

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Title IX is being interpreted (some say stretched) in a whole new way - this woman's using it to sue a Pittsburgh school district over her daughter's anorexia, which developed after boys at school bullied her about her weight. Does she have a case?

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Anorexia is an eating disorder in which a person becomes obsessed about gaining weight and severely limits food or starves to feel more in control. Most people with anorexia are female.

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There is a growing rise in eating disorders among older women. One explanation is that eating disorders strike during developmental milestones and events.

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Margie Hodgin, a nurse in Kernersville, N.C., had struggled to lose weight since she was a teenager. But it wasn't until she turned 40 that she finally took off the extra pounds, and then some.

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At the Eating Disorders Unit at the Maudsley Hospital in London, anorexia is not seen as a social disorder — or even primarily a psychological one.

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"What is beauty? It's a question Israeli fashion photographer Adi Barkan has been wrestling with for seven years, ever since he launched a crusade to rid the fashion industry of its dirty little secret: presenting unhealthy body images that promote eating disorders among young wo …

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Following the death of a promising 18-year-old student from anorexia, Emily Halban gives a personal account of how the disease can strike girls like her who "had it all"

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A Web page labeled "Ana Boot Camp" recently offered its members a seemingly irresistible proposition: a 30-day regimen designed to help them drop some serious pounds, no exercise needed.

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Describes how eating disorders are on the rise in men, accounting for 25 percent of anorexics and bulimics.

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Anorexics can be male, old, Latino, black or pregnant. A new book undercuts old stereotypes.

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"Quebec is considering following France's example in the fight against anorexia, the provincial culture minister says.

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An Interview with Author Lisa See

As the young women of 17th century China were drawn to the famous opera, The Peony Pavilion, author Lisa See was drawn to the 17th century text, The Three Wives' Commentary, "the first book of its kind, having been written by women, to have been published anywhere in the worl …

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On March 20, the eminent academic Rosemary Pope was found dead in her Bournemouth home. She was 49 years old, and weighed just four stone 10lbs.

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Acceptance is the Answer

Acceptance saved my life.

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wo years ago, the fashion world was stunned by the death of a 5-foot-8-inch Brazilian model who, at 88 pounds, weighed no more than a child.

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PARIS — In the capital of high fashion and ultrathin models, conservative French legislators adopted a pioneering law on Tuesday aimed at stifling a proliferation of Web sites that promote eating disorders with "thinspiration" and starvation tips.

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France, the home of high fashion and ultra-thin catwalk models, is to adopt legislation which bans websites that promote eating disorders.

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In the capital of high fashion and ultrathin models, conservative French legislators adopted a pioneering law on Tuesday aimed at stifling a proliferation of Web sites that promote eating disorders.

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The French National Assembly has passed a groundbreaking bill which seeks to criminalise the promotion in the media of extreme thinness. The bill targets pro-anorexia websites and publications that encourage girls and young women to starve themselves.

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France's lower house of parliament today adopted a groundbreaking bill that would make it illegal for anyone to publicly incite extreme thinness.

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Her frame was so skeletal that doctors warned Hayley Wilde she was just over a week away from death. But three years on, after an eight-year battle against anorexia, she has bounced back in the most emphatic fashion by giving birth to a boy.

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