(of a website) encouraging or advocating anorexia.
pro-ana sites share tips on how to trick your parents into believing you're eating
Example sentencesExamples
If I continue to neglect the gym, I'm just going to have to go pro-ana.
They naively believe that their words do not influence others, but I have read the following sentence on an online diary: ‘I think I might cut up my gums so it hurts to eat so I won't want to; I saw that on a pro-ana site.’
Some pro-ana websites feature anorexia prayers and sacrifice rituals.
Adults are free to use these products anyway they wish, but isn't there an implied sponsorship of the pro-ana mindset by having these ads on these sites?
Kirsty's parents, Joanne and Martin, have desperately tried to stop her using pro-ana chatrooms where sufferers swap tips on starvation and exercise.
Definition of pro-ana in US English:
pro-ana
adjectiveprōˈanə
(of a website) encouraging or advocating anorexia.
pro-ana sites share tips on how to trick your parents into believing you're eating
Example sentencesExamples
They naively believe that their words do not influence others, but I have read the following sentence on an online diary: ‘I think I might cut up my gums so it hurts to eat so I won't want to; I saw that on a pro-ana site.’
Kirsty's parents, Joanne and Martin, have desperately tried to stop her using pro-ana chatrooms where sufferers swap tips on starvation and exercise.
Some pro-ana websites feature anorexia prayers and sacrifice rituals.
Adults are free to use these products anyway they wish, but isn't there an implied sponsorship of the pro-ana mindset by having these ads on these sites?
If I continue to neglect the gym, I'm just going to have to go pro-ana.