New Fox Series on Food Addiction

According to fox, this new series created by and starring Eric Schaeffer, "Starved" is"a comedic take on food addiction, which is used as the backdrop to the funny, romantic and personal misadventures of the four characters." This series features characters that suffer from anorexia, bulimia and compulsive over eating.

Schaeffer will star as a neurotic Wall Streeter living in Brooklyn who's friends with a bulimic cop (Sterling K. Brown, "Brown Sugar"), an overweight writer (Del Pentecost, "Kingdom Hospital") and an anorexic would-be songwriter (Broadway actress Laura Benanti, "Nine").

Advocacy groups are protesting - and surefire debate is stirring things up. Well, if you ask me - this subject has been only whispered about for too long. There is nothing funny about the issue...but the fact that we have kept quiet about it has made is a subject to write comedy about. Lets take the opportunity to discuss the problem of eating disorders...bring it to the forefront.

Please - lets not ignore this important subject. If you would like to learn more about eating disorders contact Dawn Montaner, Executive Director of Lifelines Foundation for Eating Disorders at dmontaner@lfed.org. And visit http://www.lfed.org

There you will learn the truth about anorexia and bulimia - and how you can save a life.