Focus on health, not body image
Photo credit: Newsday HANDOUT | Cynthia M. Bulik, director of the Eating Disorders Program at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine, and the book, "The Woman in the Mirror."
"The Woman in the Mirror" by Cynthia Bulik, Are you a woman older than 50 trying to lose a few extra pounds? That can be a good thing. Unless it becomes a very bad thing.
A new study found that 13 percent of women 50 and older exhibited symptoms of eating disorders. Even women who didn't have an eating disorder worried — sometimes obsessively — about their body image. About 79 percent said their perception of themselves was affected...
