Recent news reports have focused on increasingly popular websites and blogspromo

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Recent news reports have focused on increasingly popular websites and blogspromoting disordered eating as a desirable lifestyle (see link below). These sites reportedly offer tips and instructions for practicing anorexic and bulimic behaviors. Why do you think these sites have become so popular? Do you think they should, or even could, be controlled? Do you see disordered eating, anorexia or bulimic eating behaviors as a sustainable lifestyle? Explain.

http://www.webmd.com/mental-health/eating-disorders/anorexia-nervosa/features/pro-anorexia-web-sites-thin-web-line

Explanation / Answer

The sites have become so popular because of the increasing tendencies of the disorder. They could be controlled because knowing about anything beyond the limit might be psychologically dangerous at a particular point of time.

Eating disorders are serious and potentially life threatening mental illness.They are not a life style choice or diet through which they maintain in daily life. Treatment on this can be given based on individual assessments. Later it is manageable and sustainable. It is very easy to diagnose a full-blown eating disorder like Anorexia or Bulimia nervosa.

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