Extreme Dieting Links

Table Talk: Do It Your Way (The Burlington Free Press)

As sure as death and taxes, January means resolutions. Dieting always makes the top 10, even this year. The depressing weight-loss business, it seems, remains depression-proof.

Home economics pupils will be taught how to avoid faddy diets as GCSEs are updated to reflect modern life (Daily Mail)

For generations, home economics classes involved learning to bake cakes and sew. Now pupils are more likely to learn about the dangers of extreme and faddy diets as lessons are updated.

Extreme Dieting and the Girl Who Didn't Want To Grow Up (About.com)

Here's a disturbing story from the UK about a 23-year-old who looks 12 and has never reached puberty because she's starving herself to retain a childlike appearance. Vikki Hensley consumes...

Richard Simmons, the Serial Groper of Morning TV [VideUhOh] (Gawker)

newVideoPlayer("/SimmonsMontage2.flv", 506, 423,""); Poor Richard Simmons. The weight-loss guru, suffering from a bad case of sparkle-brain (related to this disease) has been making the rounds yet...

The female Peter Pan: How a graduate of 23 has starved herself for the body of a 12-year-old (Daily Mail)

This 23-year-old woman is so terrified of ageing she has chosen not to grow up. Vikki Hensley has frozen her body in time to that of a 12-year-old girl through extreme dieting.