What are pro-ana and pro-mia sites and what can we do about them?
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There is a whole language around eating disorders that sounds like Greek to a lot of us:
- Pro-ana – website that promotes anorexia
- Pro-mia – website that promotes bulimia
- Thinspiration/Thinspo – images to inspire weight loss
- Fitspiration/Fitspo – images to inspire exercise/body building.
What are pro-ana and pro-mia sites?
Pro-ana and pro-mia sites are websites that promote anorexic and bulimic lifestyles. Set up by people with eating disorders looking to validate their illness and seeking support to continue with their eating disorder from fellow sufferers, these sites vary hugely in their precise content. They are often a forum for people to exchange pictures and weight loss or purging tips and to encourage one another’s weight loss.
Who uses pro-ana and pro-mia sites?
These sites are often a refuge for people suffering from eating disorders. It’s common for sufferers to feel quite isolated having pushed away their family and friends preferring to seek out like-minded ...
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