Anorexia Nervosa
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There has never been a specific campaign to combat anorexia nervosa, however several high-profile celebrities have suffered from the disorder and this has brought national attention to the problem. The most famous of these was Karen Carpenter of the brother/sister singing team, The Carpenters (Carpenter, 1983). Karen Carpenter died in 1983 at the age of 32 from heart failure brought on by years of fighting anorexia. Another celebrity with the disorder is Melissa DeHart, a former TV reporter who has been profiled on Entertainment Tonight (The Poster, 2003). Their stories have received the most publicity, though thousands of young women and men continue to suffer from the disorder. Karen and Richard Carpenter, a brother/sister act, with Karen playing the drums and singing and Richard playing the piano, became one of the most popular groups of the 1970s, with such hits as "We've Only Just Begun" and "Closer To You" and "Rainy Days and Mondays" (Karen, 1983). Karen had been a little chubby as a teenager, and went on the Stillman Diet under the guidance of a doctor and lost 25 lbs (Carpenter, 1983). She was around 115 lbs in 1975 when her illness became more serious, according to her brother. She was exhausted after a tour and spent five days in a hospital for bed rest, then two months in bed at their parents' home. It was then that they first heard she had anorexia nervosa and everyone tried to encourage her to eat more.
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ing memory in their minds. Last year, yet another celebrity checked into a clinic to be treated for an eating disorder. Mary-Kate Olsen was noted to be extremely gaunt in the weeks before she entered the clinic in 2004 (Toto, 2004). DeHart pointed to the images of other celebrities such as Lara Flynn Boyle, Calista Flockhart and Kate Winslett as models which help perpetuate the disorder among young women (Hollywood, 2003). The constant relaying of the message to young women that to be attractive you must be thin is what underlies the onset of anorexia nervosa in many of them, like DeHart. She was working in an industry where image is everything, and she fell into the trap of always wanting more (or rather, less).
National Association for Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders (ANAD)
The National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders (ANAD), Inc. is a non-profit organization which seeks to help those with eating disorders, particularly anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa (ANAD/Mission, 2005). Its aim is to educate healthcare professionals and the general public to be more aware of the illnesses relating to eating disorders and methods of treating them. ANAD provides research to investigate the cau
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