Isabelle Caro, a Marseilles born actress and model who became an international symbol for her struggle with anorexia, has died after spending about two weeks in hospital with acute respiratory disease. She had recently returned to France from working in Tokyo. Anorexic since 13, in 2006 Isabelle fell into a coma when her weight dropped to 25kg. She fought the eating disorder and announced...
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On the one hand my rebuild is going swimmingly. My workouts are going harder, better, faster, stronger. Muscle that went into exhile during the starvation phase has returned and is re-establishing itself as a productive member of the group, even lending bones some support as they rebuild. I'm sure it's reciprocal. On the other hand like any community rebuilding after a disaster my body has its...
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Back in May I, along with many other bloggers, wrote about 50 Cent's dramatic scrawnination for his role as a cancer patient in Things Fall Apart. He dropped 54 lbs in 9 weeks with a liquid diet and daily 3-hour workouts, with an emaciated result as dangerous as my 100 days of starvation. Do not try this at home. The good news is, as fiddy was ahead of me in the extreme weight loss (and...
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If you're reading this long after i wrote it, the title won't make much sense. But as I type, Angelina Jolie has a movie in theatres called "Salt". Here's a mother of six in her late 30's who is a UN Goodwill Ambassador and a busy actor (the highest paid female actor in the world, currently) who had to bulk up to play a CIA agent whose shining service record is matched only by the gloss on her...
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