Eating Disorders Blog

February 4, 2009 represents the 26th anniversary of the passing of singer-musician Karen Carpenter. Karen Carpenter's death played a significant part in bringing anorexia nervosa to the attention of the American public. In 1983, at the age of 32, after years of battling the eating disorder, Carpenter died of heart failure, which was later linked to her anorexia.

Carpenter's death brought sustained media attention to eating disorders which, up until that time, were little known to mainstream America. Her family started the Karen A. Carpenter Memorial Foundation, which currently funds not only programs to fight eating disorders but also arts, entertainment, and education. (Source: www.wikipedia.org)

Labels: awareness, media, education

Posted By: Aspen Education Group