August 05, 2002
More on pro-anorexia websites

I blogged earlier about pro-anorexia and pro-bulimia websites. Today I also found an interesting article in TIME Magazine: Anorexia Goes High Tech:

Developing an eating disorder is no easy task. Becoming an anorexic, for example, requires months, even years, of obsessive, destructive tunnel vision. [...] and it can be extraordinarily lonely.

That’s where technology comes in. Thanks to the wonders of the Internet, anorexics and would-be anorexics around the globe can access more than 400 web sites designed solely for them.[...]

The article describes honorable action by Yahoo, removing pro-ana sites from their servers, but (my opinion) does the mistake of linking to several pro-anorectic sites online, which will no doubt make this information even more available to people (among other ways, by increasing Google "PageRank" and by direct clickthroughs).

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This website is the BOMB! Uh, case closed?

Posted by: Jessica on November 25, 2002 05:46 AM

nowa days u cant find n e pro ana sites and it sucks

Posted by: Brie on December 31, 2002 06:34 AM

Does this website help give you tips or does it try to prevent bulimia and anorexia? Can i get tips on being bulimic?

Posted by: Nicole on January 10, 2003 10:10 PM

hey i need help throwing up. any tips? e-mail me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: sarah on January 21, 2003 06:30 PM

hey i need help throwing up. any tips? e-mail me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: sarah on January 21, 2003 06:30 PM

please everyone who struggles out there like me, hold in there for me. knowing that there is someone else out there who is at least trying with me helps. This ED is a monster please dont let this overcome you and eat you up. please please hold on together we can please. love stacy.

Posted by: stacy on January 28, 2003 08:04 AM

please everyone who struggles out there like me, hold in there for me. knowing that there is someone else out there who is at least trying with me helps. This ED is a monster please dont let this overcome you and eat you up. please please hold on together we can please. love stacy.

Posted by: stacy on January 28, 2003 08:04 AM

please everyone who struggles out there like me, hold in there for me. knowing that there is someone else out there who is at least trying with me helps. This ED is a monster please dont let this overcome you and eat you up. please please hold on together we can please. love stacy.

Posted by: stacy on January 28, 2003 08:04 AM

I am a student at a college somewhere in the USA. I have a classmate (seriously, this isn't me asking for this) who is trying to find out more about pro-anna and pro-bulimia websites.

If you have any for me- please please contact me and let me know at michiru_9903@yahoo.com

Thanks!

A student in need

Posted by: student on January 29, 2003 09:26 PM

You guys are all sick... you need to get help from a doctor rather than an online weight nazi.

Posted by: Er on January 31, 2003 02:21 PM

well I really like this site but I'm only 13 and I weigh 160libs:*(and I want to get down to 110 atleast.Now I want to losse this weight b4 spring starts.I NEED UR HELP ASAP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Kayla on February 7, 2003 12:18 AM

YOU GUYS ARE SICK!!! You need sreious help if you are considering this garbage!

Posted by: shawna on February 8, 2003 03:26 AM

Hey everyone! I really need some tips on throwing up!! Please e-mail me if u have any. Thanks:)

Posted by: Marybeth on February 9, 2003 09:08 PM

ouch. and another blog on pro-anorexia turns ugly with tip requesting. it seems to happen to every blog i come across with an entry on it.

Posted by: Tanya on February 12, 2003 01:51 PM

I need some tips on how to lose weight. I am a college student, I weigh 125, but I want to get down to 100 fast. If anyone has any tips please help me out :)

Posted by: Sofia on February 20, 2003 12:00 AM

hi i need some tips on how to lose weight fast. I want to lose 50 lbs.

Posted by: nicki on February 20, 2003 08:29 PM

This is so moronic. you are all idiots. eat something........or you'll die.

Posted by: nunya business on February 28, 2003 06:47 PM

hi.....i need some tips on how to rid the world of idiots like you all that are here trying to get tips on how to throw up, be an anorexic blah blah blah. you are all so 1982. give me a break.......you are all in serios need of some help. how about this...... excercise and a healthy diet??? holy shit....why would any of you want to do that? i mean, it's not cool enough is it? i hope you all choke on your fingers.

Posted by: anorexicsareinsane on February 28, 2003 08:06 PM

hey,
i think that i am really fat and i was wondering on what i can do to loose weight or even becoming anorexic but i dont know what to do...any tips?

Posted by: Nadine on March 10, 2003 10:18 PM

hey,
im back again.....i was wondering if neone out there had tips on loosing i say around .....15 pounds??? please help me

Posted by: Nadine on March 10, 2003 10:20 PM

right now i weigh 96 pounds and i want to lose 5 more pounds. lately i have been bingng so much. i need advice on hoew to stop binging. please help!

Posted by: lisa on March 11, 2003 01:11 AM

hey! im not bulimic or anorexic, but i am thinking of becoming one or both... Im 15 and im a sophomore in high school and i weigh 117. I really want to have a NICE body, would anyone place some tips on how i can be way WAY skinnier. Like what kind of foods dont really hurt coming back up?? Help me please! Its kinda ironic becasue i am doing a research project on anorexia and bulimia, and i have a hard time finding bad points!!!

Posted by: sarah on March 11, 2003 10:41 PM

Hey everybody,
I just want to say that I'm with you all with you trying to lose weight. I've been eating 1,000 calories a day for the past year and I've lost 17 lbs. I know that that may not sound too anorexic, and I don't think that I am. I have become to stressed out with having to count calories everyday, but whenever I don't, I get so worried that I'll gain weight. Someone please help. My parents say that I should eat more, but then they call me fat. I can't eat with anyone watching me. I have to eat alone, or I don't eat. Do I have an eating problem?

Posted by: Kathy on March 12, 2003 01:41 AM

For those people who are comeing here and telling people who are asking for anorexia or bulimia tips that they're sick idiots, please stop. These are serious diseases and speaking from experiance saying mean things about it and treating it like somehting you can just stop doing at any time really doesn't help. In fact it can make things worse. So please don't come on here and try to preach in an ignorant or cruel way.

Posted by: Kagome on March 12, 2003 06:38 AM

e-mail if you are into throwing up!!
neilsbabeca@yahoo.com

Posted by: Dee on March 12, 2003 02:40 PM

This discussion thread will be closed. Sorry guys.

Posted by: andersja on March 12, 2003 03:04 PM

I am sick and tired of all the people in my life telling me that i am fat!! All i do is eat from the time i get up to the time i go to bed. I wish that i could not eat as much as when i do eat. Can someone give me some tips. i want to be thin fast!!

Posted by: dessa on May 26, 2003 04:02 AM
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