No, people suffering from eating disorders should not be turned into fodder for the entertainment industry. I'm a psychotherapist in Los Angeles specializing in eating disorder recovery for adult women. I get at least two calls a week from producers or their lackeys asking me to help them find people with eating disorders for their shows.

They also ask me to talk to my patients and encourage them to be on such shows. Confidentiality, respect for the healing experience, and honor for the individual's process go out the window in search of ratings based on voyeuristic interests.

Why would a basketball coach be helpful to you in your eating disorder recovery journey? Beause John Wooden is a master at inspiring and motivating people to be the best they can be and to overcome obstacles that interfere with achieving their goals.

If you want eating disorder recovery, you can do yourself a great service by listening to a great man.

Brave Suffragettes marching for women's dignity, respect and equality. Women can vote because of their courage and determination

My point about fear of fat not being a "subclinical issue" in healthy women (see Women are Human Beings, Not Symptoms) just got confirmed with this article from PubMed via the National Center for Biotechnology Information, "An experimental study of the role of weight bias in candidate evaluation," written by Beth J Miller and Jennifer D Lundgren.

Sadly, but not surprisingly, "...obese female candidates were evaluated more negatively than nonobese female candidates and nonobese male candidates were evaluated more negatively than were obese male candidates."

Eating disorders are serious conditions that can limit or destroy a woman's life. I'm glad to know that these disorders are taken seriously and being researched and that prevention is sought.

But, in my opinion, the direction of study can go astray. The focus needs to be on women, not the disorder, the human being, not the symptoms.