Creative Feature Article

Thin is Good, but Thinner is Better
Anorexia - one of the most common and unrecognised conditions among teenagers and young adults of the twenty first century. Victims starve themselves; afraid to eat anything for the sheer dread of becoming fat. Some exercise to extremes in a desperate effort to shed kilos. But why can't they simply go on a healthy diet when they reach their 'thin' status? Melissa Smith, once suffering from anorexia, explains that "What was thin for other people wasn't thin at all in my eyes. Many of my friends and family would tell me I'd lost a lot of weight and that I…