What are tips and tricks?
Tips and tricks are ideas, methods and generally unhealthy practices used largely by members of pro-ana/mia websites and forums to induce weight loss, hide symptoms or otherwise engage in "anorexic" behaviors. These tips can include teaching someone how to purge silently or without getting caught, how to eat less, how to burn more calories etc. Many of these tips are not only dangerous to your health, they simply don't work.
Our Stance:
We feel that tips and tricks should not be needed anywhere on any Anorexia webpage, forum, or group as anyone who suffers from an eating disorder already knows how to lose weight in unsafe and dangerous ways. Many of these tips can create dangerous health problems and can expose normal girls with normal body issues to potentially deadly risks. It is the opinion of the Jungle creators that tips and tricks exist to aid those who do not have, but simply want to have an eating disorder.
Tips and Tricks Wall of Shame:
"Do everything in high heels. Cleaning, working out, etc" --- A- Doesn't work. B- Nice long list of health problems here... bunions, shortened tendons in your calves, strain on your back and maybe if you're lucky you will fall off the treadmill and break something. Darwin Awards anyone?
"TAKE VITAMINS! Calcium and iron are super-important." --- Yeah vitamins are great. Bad thing is they need food to work and they will NEVER replace the vitamins found naturally in foods. Oh and then there's the fat soluble ones- have to eat fat for those to work. Even worse is when you take more than what is recommended, then you run the risk of overdosing which can lead to serious health complications like blurred vision, dizziness, ringing in the ears, headache, insomnia, irritability, apathy, stupor, skin rash, nausea, vomitting, diarrhea, hair loss, joint pain, menstrual irregularities, fatigue, liver damage, abnormal bone growth, damage to the nervous system, Pulmonary embolism, hypertension, muscular weakness, severe fatigue, breast tenderness, slow wound healing, loss of fingernails and toenails and we haven't even mentioned half of the problems.
" take a icy cold shower/bath. Like drinking the ice water, it is cause your body burns calories warming you back up"--- Sure if you want hypothermia... and excess body hair. Nevermind this can seriously screw your body up and in extreme cases lead to brain damage and death. Oh yeah this doesn't work either.
More to come later....