They are what saves the world: who choose to grow
Thin to a starting point beyond this squalor.
from On Winter's Margin by Mary Oliver

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"Forty Minutes" Caraline's Story (TV Episode 1994) www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vMcW7YBUII dir. Jeremy Llewellyn-Jones

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An eating disorder is a mental disorder defined by abnormal eating habits that negatively affect a person's physical or mental health. They include binge eating disorder, where people eat a large amount in a short period of time; anorexia nervosa, where people eat very little due to a fear of gaining weight and thus have a low body weight; bulimia nervosa, where people eat a lot and then try to rid themselves of the food; pica, where people eat non-food items; rumination syndrome, where people regurgitate food; avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID), where people have a lack of interest in food; and a group of other specified feeding or eating disorders. Anxiety disorders, depression and substance abuse are common among people with eating disorders. These disorders do not include obesity.

The causes of eating disorders are not clear. Both biological and environmental factors appear to play a role. Cultural idealization of thinness is believed to contribute to some eating disorders. Eating disorders affect about 12 percent of dancers. Individuals who have experienced abuse are also more likely to develop eating disorders. Some disorders such as pica and rumination disorder occur more often in people with intellectual disabilities. Only one eating disorder can be diagnosed at a given time.

Treatment can be effective for many eating disorders. Typically, this involves counselling, a proper diet, a normal amount of exercise and the reduction of efforts to eliminate food. Hospitalization may be needed in more serious cases. Medications may be used to help with some of the associated symptoms. About 70% of people with anorexia and 50% of people with bulimia recover within five years. Recovery from binge eating disorder is less clear and estimated at 20% to 60%. Both anorexia and bulimia increase the risk of death.

In the developed world, binge eating disorder affects about 1.6% of women and 0.8% of men in a given year. Anorexia affects about 0.4% and bulimia affects about 1.3% of young women in a given year. Up to 4% of women have anorexia, 2% have bulimia, and 2% have binge eating disorder at some point in time. Anorexia and bulimia occur nearly ten times more often in females than males. Typically, they begin in late childhood or early adulthood. Rates of other eating disorders are not clear. Rates of eating disorders appear to be lower in less developed countries.

- Don't Call Me Crazy (2013 - Mini Series)
- Empty www.youtube.com/watch?v=P65pajLA9io
- Lucky Ducks (2009)
- Removed (short)
- Starved (TV)

Fat Aunt Mary, on my mother's side,
Weighed three hundred pounds, and maybe more.
The threshold trembled when she came to visit;
The hinges squealed on the kitchen door.
She sat in Papa's chair, while yards of gingham
Flowed away to hide her socks and shoes.
Her voice rolled through the farmhouse deep as thunder
When great Aunt Mary rumbled through the news.

How shall we guess the spirit that lies hidden?
Built like an ocean liner, wreathed in smiles,
The thing she loved the best was to go fishing,
To row alone over the liquid miles
And drop her line for perch and pike. It seemed
Incongruous then, but now I guess
She could recall a loveliness
Out there upon the blue and quiet waters
With nothing to be compared to but horizons.

But fat Aunt Mary was not always so—
In an old album idly looked at since
I stared to recognize a skinny child.
It was Mary, in a time before her glands
Grew wild as pumps, and fleshed her to a joke.
ing how she frightened all small children
As she loomed and puffed along the summer sand,
I tasted shame, and thought how wise we grow,
Just as the pulse of things slips from the hand
And we are left the empty cup of wish—
December it was, Aunt Mary carried seaward
Her last brave pound, caught her last lonely fish.

Aunt Mary by Mary Oliver collected in The River styx, Ohio and Other Poems