Eating Disorders
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Everybody eats. We do so both because we need to and because we enjoy it. However, as with all human behavior, there are huge differences between people. Some eat more, some eat less, some put on weight easily, and others do not. And some people go to such extremes that they harm themselves, by eating too much or too little. As a result they may harm their health and come to need the attention of doctors. Although it is easier to talk about them as different conditions, individual patients often suffer from symptoms of anorexia and bulimia. Today, eight million Americans suffer from anorexia and bulimia. Of this eight million, 85 percent of them are girls between the ages of thirteen and twenty. About 40 percent of nine and ten year old girls are trying to lose weight also...