CounterPunch Weekend Edition November 12 - 14, 2010 Running Into the Darkness Anorexia and Capitalism By BRIAN McKENNA The anthropologist despairs as he watches a young native girl run from the dinner table, in fear of getting fat. She refuses to eat even a bite of lettuce and her weight is now down to 78, from 136. She is in a danger zone. Her organs are failing.
The father runs out to find her in the darkness, through the woods, following her tears. "Where are you, dear?" On the TV, Portia de Rossi, the actress star of Ally McBeal, cries as she retells Oprah about her descent into anorexic madness. Portia was lucky. She had the money (which can be as high as $250,000) for good professional help at Monte Nido in California. They helped save her life. She tells her powerful story in her best-selling book, Unbearable Lightness (2010). But this night the father screams into the night. The little native girl is not rich. Blue Cross and Blue Shield refuse to pay for this treatment which her pediatrician, nutritionist and therapist demand, with strongly worded letters. They've been struck, bewitched. It is their fault. Die. Abandoned, the family descends into a nightmare. full: http://www.counterpunch.org/mckenna11122010.html
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