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About Eating Disorders
Did you know?
- The average model weighs 23% less than the average woman
- 91% of women recently surveyed on a college campus has attempted to control their weight through dieting; 22% dieted 'often' or 'always'
- 60% of high school seniors are dieting
- 20-30% of normal weight fourth graders think they are fat
- An estimated 5-10 million women and one million men suffer from anorexia, bulimia and compulsive overeating
- 90% of those with eating disorders are female
- There is a strong coexistence between eating disorders and depression, anxiety, obsessive compulsive disorder, trauma and related disorders, and substance abuse
- More people die from anorexia than from any other psychiatric illness
- A prevalence rate for anorexia nervosa of 0.48% among girls 15-19 years old in the United States makes this disorder the third most chronic condition among adolescent girls
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