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• Pro Ana Tips and Tricks
  
  Pro Ana or Pro Anorexia is an online movement that consists of many websites, chat rooms, and forums supporting anorexia nervosa. These websites are usually created by girls and women who suffer from the disease but who do not wish to get cured. They inste

• Eating disorder saga featured on Today'
  
  The websites encourage women to lead a more "thinspirational" life. They provide diet tips and tricks - and doctored photos revealing impossible goals for women desperate to be in control of their bodies.
  


• IN HEALTH TODAY Hopkins examines websites promoting eating disorders
  
  John Hopkins researchers are exploring the effects of Web sites that glorify anorexia and bulimia Johns Hopkins researchers are examining the content and messages of 180 sites that glorify anorexia and bulimia as well as "thinspiration sites." Researches say this is the first step to understand what role these "pro-ana" and "pro-mia" sites play in developing eating disorders.
  


• Hopkins researchers examine sites glorifying eating disorders
  
  Study looks at effects of 'thinspiration' websites that promote anorexia and bulimia Juli Babbitt, a 26-year-old recovering anorexic living in Columbia, often found herself visiting a website featuring pictures of rail-thin models with protruding rib bones, and providing purging techniques, at the height of her eating disorder.