It took two years of intense nutrition counseling and psychotherapy to pull me out of being anorexic. My problem now is that I’ve gained too much weight from eating normally. Is there no middle ground? I can’t fit into my clothes, but I don’t want to go back to being sick. —Former Anorexic, Weston, CT […]

Thinkstock Despite calls for change, ballet’s obsession with extreme thinness persists. During a recent performance of Balanchine’s The Four Temperaments, a corps member at a prominent company complained that she was so hungry she thought she’d faint. The dancer next to her started to worry that she herself wasn’t hungry enough. “In shape for us […]