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Gumdrop Girl asked in HealthDiet & Fitness · 1 decade ago

Should people clearly displaying signs of eating disorders be excluded from asking about weight loss on Y!A?

I love fitness, and I love Y!A, but I hate finding piles and piles of posts from anorexic, bulimic, and other eating disordered individuals seeking (unhealthy) weight loss advice on the Diet & Fitness board.

While it is not technically against Y!A guidelines (yet), do you believe that these posts should be removed by moderators to prevent people from engaging in potentially lethal behavior?

Or is it a free speech issue, and that people should be allowed to self-harm as they please, and that the Internet community should be allowed to aid and abet this kind of behavior?

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  • 1 decade ago
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    Hopefully people will point out that their behavior is dangerous instead of encouraging it.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Well, technically their questions are breaching the terms of the yahoo service, so they can be reported and their posts removed. It's not healthy for them to continually post questions on here, often receiving not particularly helpful replies.

    HTH.

  • 5 years ago

    fast food is salty food if you cut back on the salt in a few weeks youll be able to better taste the natural salts in food and may not crave the junk as much as you used to

  • 5 years ago

    if food was your only source of pleasure make sure to reconnect with other things you enjoy music sports volunteer work or movies for example

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  • 5 years ago

    Stop hunger pangs while dieting by eating foods that keep you full

  • 5 years ago

    walk up and down 33 flights of stairs

  • 5 years ago

    instead of a margarita opt for tequila on the rocks with a lime wedge

  • 5 years ago

    you might do better to replace an occasional dinner with a nice roll in the hay

  • 1 decade ago

    maybe by people asking these questions they will get enough responses telling them to go to a doctor and get help.

  • 5 years ago

    have fun when you get back to work twirl 123 times in your office chair try not to puke

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