Consuming Thoughts

Understanding eating disorders and body image.

Pamela Keel, Ph.D., is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at Florida State University. See full bio

June 19, 2009

Smarter than she looks

Rhodes scholar finalist, graduate from Stanford University with honors, Harvard Law School student, news anchor, author of 4 books, Executive Director of foundation for veterans . . . this list of accomplishments brings a certain image to mind, and that image is not a 20-something year old woman wearing a tiara and walking down a pageant runway with a bouquet of roses. Read More

March 9, 2009

Photos on Facebook

Like a lot of people my age, I joined Facebook to reconnect with high school friends in anticipation of my 20th high school reunion. Read More

February 5, 2009

Height and Weight of Playboy Centerfolds - Why Bother?

In this month's Wired magazine, Katharine Gammon uses reported height and weight for Playboy centerfolds to examine how their Body Mass Index has changed over recent decades. Read More

September 9, 2008

Idealizing vs. Identifying: Two Pathways to Public Appeal

The media offers women several kinds of public figures. There are public figures we can idealize and who may represent aspirational goals, and there are public figures with whom we can identify and who reflect experiences of our own lives. Read More

August 6, 2008

The Biology of Blame, Part II

Will emerging biological explanations of eating disorders help or hurt patients? Read More

May 30, 2008

Knowing Thyself

"Do I look fat in these jeans?" Read More

April 25, 2008

Biology and Blame

Identifying the causes of eating disorders may help us understand why some people develop these devastating illnesses, but it won't give us a target for blame. Read More

Eating Disorders Basics

Anorexia nervosa is an eating disorder that is prevalent especially among young women and, increasingly, among young men. Marked by a distorted sense of body image and extreme voluntary starvation, and closely associated with perfectionism and depression, it is the most deadly psychiatric disorder.

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Disordered eating is widespread in the American population, but frank eating disorders, such as anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa, which is also called bing

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