Wednesday, March 5, 2008

I'm listening to a story about a woman who grew to be anorexic, and her memories growing up as a kid are "feeling uncomfortable in "her own skin, inadequate, less than, totally different than others-leading to her conclusion that if she were thin, and thiner and thiner, she would fit in and be a happy girl. She also mentions the media, the magazines models figures and airbrushed bodies. The story continues that asks was she born with this --dna? She was born with depression a doctor says. Yes. I see the correlation with drug and alcohol addiction. Any addiction, really. Eating disorders are being researched as genetic predisorders. It is in the early stages, but I can see where it is going, and I agree. The evidence is in regarding alcoholism being an inherited disorder,, via twin studies and more. It will be interesting to watch how these studies/research unravels regarding eating disorders. So common amongst females, and so devastating, a killer-literally.

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