How bizarre to pretend that the hours and dollars we’ve spent to make ourselves smaller was for “health and wellness” and not aesthetics. What else could a group of twenty-five women have talked about or accomplished in that time together?

isn’t true, though, to say that “feeding disorders” are only for infants, and “eating disorders” are for teenagers and adults. To study disorders of eating is to see that we live in an era when some children are old before their time, and some adults are forever juvenile.

As a result, many women today have developed a “fear” of food. Fat phobia, as well as carbohydrate and calorie phobias, affect many women today and are symptoms of an ever-growing despair. Food phobias are obsessive and dangerous, and they can start at an alarmingly young age. More girls today suffer from anorexia and other eating disorders than ev