{"id":42727,"date":"2014-02-22T21:30:13","date_gmt":"2014-02-22T21:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/london_times_the_silent_epidemic_of_anorexia_hitting_top_girls_schools\/"},"modified":"2014-02-22T21:30:13","modified_gmt":"2014-02-22T21:30:13","slug":"london_times_the_silent_epidemic_of_anorexia_hitting_top_girls_schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=42727","title":{"rendered":"([London] Times) The silent epidemic of anorexia hitting top girls\u2019 schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A silent epidemic of anorexia is sweeping through the country\u2019s top independent schools, affecting thousands of teenage girls, experts say.<\/p>\n<p>Girls from aspirational families are the \u201cfastest-growing\u201d\u009d group using mental health services as they struggle to cope with the pressure to achieve top grades, according to psychologists. Mental health charities say that many of the top private schools are in denial about the scale of the problem because they do not want to damage their brands.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBeing high-achieving, perfectionist and competitive are all traits that are celebrated in highly academic girls\u2019 schools,\u201d\u009d Susan Ringwood, of the eating disorder charity BEAT, said. \u201cThey are also among serious risk factors contributing to an eating disorder.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/tto\/education\/article4012911.ece\">Read it all<\/a> (subscription required).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A silent epidemic of anorexia is sweeping through the country\u2019s top independent schools, affecting thousands of teenage girls, experts say. Girls from aspirational families are the \u201cfastest-growing\u201d\u009d group using mental health services as they struggle to cope with the pressure<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=42727\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,50,175,101,100,199,168,104,134,129,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-anthropology","category-children","category-dietingfoodnutrition","category-england-uk","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-health-medicine","category-hungermalnutrition","category-psychology","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}