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Jian Gomeshi Explores Eating Disorders and a New Documetary on 'Q'

With recent news that eating disorders are increasingly affecting men, Jian talks to MERRYL BEAR, director of Canada's National Eating Disorder Information Centre about the alarming rise of the condition blithely called "manorexia", and why men with disordered eating and body image problems are not taken as seriously as women.

LENNY COOKE and ADAM SHOPKORN are the subject and producer, respectively, of the new documentary "Lenny Cook", which follows a basketball prodigy ranked No. 1 when he was in high school, but whose NBA dreams did not materialize despite the hype. The discuss the film, which has been compared to the influential Oscar-winner "Hoop Dreams"