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<p style="font-size: 18pt; font-weight:bold; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif';"><a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/wannarexia-when-death-becomes-trendy/">Wannarexia: When Death Becomes Trendy</a></p> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif';">Posted August 8, 2007 at 02:00 PM by Katie Drummond</p> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif'">The evils of anorexia are constantly described, in vivid, sometimes painful detail, on television talk shows and magazine profiles with what feels like constant playback. By now, we all know the symptoms: a refusal to eat or to acknowledge an unhealthy weight, combined with physical problems like heart palpitations, hair loss, and amenorrhea. It sounds like a nightmare – but for many young women, anorexia has become a hot new trend, so common that medical experts have coined a new name, ‘wannarexia,’ to describe the dangerous fad. While there is a fine line between wannarexia and the development of a fully raging eating disorder, the two can still be distinguished from one another. For wannarexics, the desire to be seen as an anorexic doesn’t translate into life threatening anorexic behaviors – like starvation dieting, overexercise, or the loss of significant body mass.…<a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/wannarexia-when-death-becomes-trendy/">(<a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/wannarexia-when-death-becomes-trendy/">Continued...</a>)<br clear="all" /><br> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif'"><a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/wannarexia-when-death-becomes-trendy/">Read the full article...</a> | <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/wannarexia-when-death-becomes-trendy/">Comment on this post</a></p> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif'">Filed under: <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/her-fitness/">her-fitness</a>, <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/her-health/">her-health</a>, <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/body-image/">body-image</a>, <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/eating-disorders/">eating-disorders</a>, <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/her-nutrition/">her-nutrition</a>, <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/diet-myths/">diet-myths</a>, <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/healthy-eating/">healthy-eating</a>, <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/her-news/">her-news</a>, <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/special-features/">special-features</a><br /><br /> </P>