These Pro Ana sites even have celebrity galleries where they have a whole bunch of ultra skinny models who look like they are showing this year's "Holocaust Survivor Collection." Then they show Calista Flockhart of "Ally McBeal" fame. I'm sure Calista is proud to be associated with this website. I remember when rumors of Calista's possible eating disorder started to circulate the Fox Network had her sitting in the stands during the World Series. Everytime the camera would cut to her she would always stuff her face with one food or another.

Some of these sites also offer eating "advice", such as "Pick one food for a day ... like an apple. Cut it into eight slices. Eat two slices at breakfast, two at lunch, two at dinner and you'll have two left for a snack. This way your body thinks you're eating four times that day instead of one apple." Someone should tell this diet guru when they say, "an apple a day keeps the doctor away" they expected you to eat different foods with it. What about those two extra apple slices you can take as a snack? Is that for Pro Ana people who want to purge?

Speaking of purging one of these sites says if you're going to do that you should eat Twizzlers first this way when they come up you know your stomach is empty. I'm sure the people at Twizzlers are glad to know about the alternative uses for their product.

These sites also seem to target younger women, who are most susceptible, with advice on how to hide their illness from their parents. Here's one example: "Check the fridge when nobody else is around . . . find the food you would have eaten and get rid of it. This way you can say you ate it."

I have a better plan, throw out everything in the refrigerator, and when your parent's come home tell them you smoked a little weed and got the munchies. This will throw them off the trail because while they may think you're a drug addict they'll never figure anorexic.

They also tell these girls to complain to their parent's about how skinny some celebrities are and how [the mentioned celebrity] needs to gain some weight. Now that "Ally McBeal" is off the air, which show is a young anorexic to watch with her parents?

These sites defence for themselves is that Ana is a choice not a disease.

Yes it's a choice -- just like cancer is a choice. As matter of fact we can even take cancer to the same extreme. Since everyone is against cancer we can be for it. Of course we can't say we're "for cancer" because of all the sadness that deadly disease has brought to people. So we will have to rename it and say we are "pro 'Can'dy." After all everyone likes candy. Soon we can have chat rooms with people talking about the positive aspects of cancers and others hoping that they can get it.

I am making fun of these websites not to ridicule the women but just to show how absurd these websites are. Under the guise of trying to help they have become enablers to women who should not be enabled. As a male who has been average weight all his life I will not pretend to imagine what a woman would go through in a thin-obsessed society. However, when I see a website that plays with a disease like Anorexia and says that it's "for people with an eating disorder that chose not to recover at this time." it makes me wonder, "When will they choose to recover? When they're dead?" That's what angers me most of all because it is telling these women that it's almost better to be dead than overweight.

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