pro-ED

English

Etymology

From pro- +‎ ED (“eating disorder”).

Adjective

pro-ED (not comparable)

1. Promoting or encouraging eating disorders.

   Synonym: pro-eating disorder

   • 2016 March 10, Doug Bolton, “Instagram's banning of pro-anorexia content may have made the problem worse, scientists find”, in The Independent‎^[1]:

     Researchers from the university's School of Interactive Computing combed through 2.5 million pro-ED posts from 2011 to 2014, to study how the community reacted to Instagram's moderation. / The 17 pro-ED terms which were in[i]tially moderated by Instagram were adapted into hundreds of new words.

   • 2018 June 13, Louise Matsakis, “How Pro-Eating Disorder Posts Evade Filters on Social Media”, in Wired‎^[2]:

     And as with other kinds of harmful content on the internet, platforms hosting pro-ED communities have long struggled with how to moderate them. In 2001, Yahoo removed more than 100 pro-ED sites from its servers, saying they violated its terms of service.

   • 2022 April 18, Heather Galloway, “Pro-eating disorder social media content is a pressing health concern”, in Toronto Star‎^[3], archived from the original on 27 April 2023:

     More extreme Pro-ED content promotes and glamorizes calorie restriction, extreme exercise, or purging with the help of laxative tea. […] People are more susceptible than ever to the toxic effects of pro-ED content.

Related terms

• pro-ana
• pro-mia

 

Anagrams

• orped, roped, Pedro, Drope, repod, pored, doper