DANA: THE 8 YEAR OLD ANOREXIC
Dana is eight years old and anorexic. This week’s Cutting Edge follows Dana as she embarks on an intensive 12-week programme at a specialist clinic, to examine why younger and younger children are developing eating disorders. Dr Dee Dawson, Medical Director of the Rhodes Farm Clinic, which treats young girls with eating disorders, says: “I’m in no doubt now that the average age is falling. We are seeing more eight, nine and 10-year-olds than we have ever seen before.” But how will Dana cope, away from her family, as the youngest of 20 girls with eating disorders?
Thursday 2 October 2008
9:00pm, Channel 4
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[...] Dana: The 8 Year Old Anorexic, Channel 4, 9pm ~ Another excellent documentary from Cutting Edge which follows eight-year-old Dana who, despite being a happy and self-assured child, stopped eating. She became obsessed with calories and exercise and her weight plummeted to the point that she had to be hospitalised. Her bewildered and desperate parents then had Dana admitted to the ‘Rhodes Farm’ clinic, which specialises in the treatment of young people with eating disorders. It’s a sad and worrying film that will doubtless unsettle the parents of young girls as one stark fact emerges; media pressures over low-fat diets and body image mean that many more young girls will need medical treatment for eating disorders. Silent Witness, BBC1, 9pm ~ Part two of two, Safe: Leo tries to get information out of Levi, but it’s only after the youngster fails to go through with a stabbing that he runs away and begs for help, finally revealing all he knows. The police are still struggling to secure any concrete evidence against gang leader Keenan, who manages to evade them and continue his killing spree but just when all hope seems lost, the team makes a breakthrough. [...]
i’m watchin this atm
i am so shoked
i can’t belive she remembers all them calories yewno
Oh my god.. I cannot believe how young this girl was and how she remembered all them calories.. To think, 175 calories is around one and a quarter packets of crisps.. Think how much that is.. Not a lot.. I mean, i’ve been through anorexia before at the age of 12, and i’ve just got over it at the age of 15, but this is shocking.. I’ve never felt crying so much before in my life.. Completly shocked, but such a good message; You Have Your Bodies, You Can’t Change Them.
I started dieting at 7, mainly watching adults and copying! BED off and on but bullimia at 10 and anorexia at 13 and still now, i am 16 and can’t get off it
Its hard, not surprised tho, its society!
im so shocked, that eating disorders are
effecting girls at such a young age,
i started worrying about my weight at the age of 10,
and was very close to anorexia, and went extremely thin..
im 15 now and at a healthy weight..
i hope other girls can get over weight issues as easy at i did..
its such a shame
i blame media, they make people think u have to be thin to be happy
I Can Nott Beileve A Girl At 8 Years Old Has Been Made To Feel That You Have To Be Thin To Be Happy And I Can Not Believe That She Remembered All Those Calories Either.The Media Is To Blame They Never Put Real Life People On There Magizines Always Thin Models And Pretty Ones I Mean Come On These People In Magazines Are Made Like This By Computers They Are Fake They Should Put Real People On To Show How People Really Are And So That We As Young People Are Good The Way We Are.
Its Just Shocking!
think its disgusting that the MEDIA portray unrelistic people to model!
Be serious half the people u se in magazines arent even REAL!!!!!
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