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Diet has become a nasty four-letter word while the diet industry
has ballooned, taking in over $40 billion a year. “Thin is
in”, and our youth are paying a high price to get there.
Over five million Americans suffer from eating disorders. 50% of
9-year-old girls and 80% of 10-year-old girls have already been
on a “diet.” 2/3 of young women in Universities suffer
from eating disorders. These numbers are only going to get higher
if we don’t begin to tackle the problem early on. I work with
patients with anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge eating
disorder. All of these patients suffer from the same base problem
– a sense of helplessness and need to control their lives
via food and body weight. They take this to the extreme, though,
and food, food consumption, and exercise become all consuming processes.
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