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Online Anorexia: In Praise of a Life Ever-Fasting

By AAN Staff
july 30, 2002  02:58 pm
Online Anorexia: In Praise of a Life Ever-Fasting
Deep in the Web underground are pro-anorexia sites and chat rooms where Ana and Mia (anorexia and bulimia) are goddesses. Many of these "pro-ana" sites were dropped from Yahoo and MSN last year due to heavy public pressure. Baltimore City Paper's Natalie Davis found that they are still out there, offering comfort to the anguished, tips on losing weight, triumphant messages about getting to 65 pounds and mourning for those who die. Davis, who has flirted with eating disorders herself, peeks into a hermetic world rarely seen by outsiders and even more rarely understood.
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