A recent study conducted by the John Hopkins University's Bloomberg School of Public Health points to the damaging role "pro-ana" and "pro-mia" websites play in the development of eating disorders.
The study found that more than 90 percent of the websites were open to anyone and almost 80 percent had interactive features, such as calorie and body-mass index calculators.
As it is virtually impossible to police the entire internet, how do we keep our clients/students/children from accessing this harmful information? Is the answer rather to hope we have instilled in them the skills needed for filtering unhealthy messages?
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