Dear Readers, Recently, newsweek.com
asked me to comment about the recent sightings of pro-ana (promotes
anorexia) and pro-mia (promotes bulimia) sites on Facebook. I found ,as
others have too, that actually there more anti-ana and anti-mia sites
on facebook than there are sites that promote eating disorders.
The Newsweek.com story adds to the debate about whether these sites,
which have been around for a number of years on the internet, should be
deleted and then banned. I encourage parents of kids who travel on
Facebook to talk to them about what they are seeing. It is important to
know that a 2006 Stanford study found that 96 percent of kids with eating disorders had visited a pro-eating disorder site.
Marcia Herrin and Nancy Matsumoto, authors of the Parent’s Guide to Eating Disorders.
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