Editing Eating disorder (section)

=== Pro-ana subculture ===
{{Main|Promotion of anorexia}}
[[Pro-ana]] refers to the promotion of behaviors related to the eating disorder anorexia nervosa. Several websites promote eating disorders, and can provide a means for individuals to communicate in order to maintain eating disorders. Members of these websites typically feel that their eating disorder is the only aspect of a chaotic life that they can control.<ref>{{cite journal |vauthors=Gailey J |year=2009 |title=Starving is the most fun a girl can have: The Pro-Ana subculture as edgework |journal=Critical Criminology |volume=17 |issue=2 |pages=93–108 |doi=10.1007/s10612-009-9074-z |s2cid=144787200}}</ref> These websites are often interactive and have discussion boards where individuals can share strategies, ideas, and experiences, such as diet and exercise plans that achieve extremely low weights.<ref>{{cite journal |vauthors=Borzekowski DL, Schenk S, Wilson JL, Peebles R |date=August 2010 |title=e-Ana and e-Mia: A content analysis of pro-eating disorder Web sites |journal=American Journal of Public Health |volume=100 |issue=8 |pages=1526–34 |doi=10.2105/AJPH.2009.172700 |pmc=2901299 |pmid=20558807}}</ref> A study comparing the personal web-blogs that were pro-eating disorder with those focused on recovery found that the pro-eating disorder blogs contained language reflecting lower cognitive processing, used a more closed-minded writing style, contained less emotional expression and fewer social references, and focused more on eating-related contents than did the recovery blogs.<ref>{{cite journal |vauthors=Wolf M, Theis F, Kordy H |year=2013 |title=Language Use in Eating Disorder Blogs: Psychological Implications of Social Online Activity |journal=Journal of Language and Social Psychology |volume=32 |issue=2 |pages=212–226 |doi=10.1177/0261927x12474278 |s2cid=145676774}}</ref>