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December 16, 2007

Research: Anorexia NOT caused by models or magazine editors. Like, DUH.

It's pretty obvious that no person can be blamed for another person's anorexia. New scientific research points to brain abnormalities as the root cause:

[S]cientists say that the brains of those with anorexia are wired differently to those of the rest of us. Those who develop anorexia are born with a susceptibility to the condition, they say.

...Dr Ian Frampton, a psychologist a Exeter University has been working with anorexics using the same technology. The U.S. research supports a growing feeling that anorexia is caused by brain structure, he said.

"You would expect a lot more anorexics than we currently have if it was down to advertising and peer pressure and images of famous models like Kate Moss. These youngsters have something going on in their brain that is different.

"We are not totally sure what is happening, but we think that some of this might be inherited or some might be due to a fault in the developing brain either in the womb or during early childhood. We need to move away from this idea that supermodels are to blame."

Thank you, reason and science. Now, if we can just get all the shrill responsibility dodgers to STFU...

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