Tag: ANGI
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Astronauts, ice-cream and eating disorders
Fifty years ago, Man landed on the Moon. As an 18-year-old exchange student studying in the United States at the time, my memory is vivid of this historic moment. My memory is not so much of the grey, grainy, ghostlike outline of men in white spacesuits stepping gingerly out to...
My Christmas wish: Freedom from eating disorders
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Prof. Nick Martin Queensland Institute Medical Research, Prof. Cindy Bulik University North-Carolina and chief investigator and me, June, the survivor advocate. May 2013 ANGI gives hope in understanding genetic links in Anorexia Nervosa By June Alexander “Grandma, you are not growing old, you are maturing.” My eldest grandson, 11, is...
Eating Disorders
Give blood to help crack genetic code of anorexia – researchers’ call to United States and Australia
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‘Grandma, when you were in hospital last year, were you really sick?’ My eldest grandson, aged nine, and I are walking home from the local shops, enjoying a little ‘us’ time, when he pops this question, out of the blue. I pause in my step. Almost drop my bundle. This little...
ANGI is giving hope this Christmas
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Christmas was a particularly awful time when Anorexia Nervosa ruled my life. Another year was drawing to a close, and I remained a prisoner of the illness. The surrounding bright and bubbly festive gaiety clashed horribly with inner anguish and self-loathing. Not any more. Today ANGI gives me great cause to be hopeful and...
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The diary, a book in which a daily record of events and personal experiences can be kept, offers a window into life in the past.
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