Gregg Jantz

According to the study, nearly half of all the teens had visited an eating disorder Web site. The bad news was that 41 percent had visited a pro-eating disorder Web site, while 36 percent had visited a pro-recovery Web site. Twenty-five percent had been to both types of sites.

Ninety-six percent of the teens who went to pro-eating disorder sites reported gleaning new weight-loss or purging information from the sites. More alarmingly, 46 percent of those who went to a pro-recovery Web site said they had gained new information about different weight-loss techniques.

Users of pro-eating disorder Web sites were significantly more likely to have required hospitalization than teens who didn't frequent those sites - 3.9 percent versus 1.1 percent, respectively.

This is another reason why parents should monitor what their children are reading on the Internet. Parents who have a child who has a known eating disorder need to be alert to the dangers of pro-eating disorder sites.

I hope that if there are any teens reading this blog that they will understand how dangerous purging and unhealthy weight loss can be to their well being.

Here is a link to the entire article:
http://www.cbc.ca/cp/HealthScout/061205/6120506AU.html

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