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Health Conditions
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Eating Disorders
Introduction
Even as Americans are becoming heavier than ever before, our society continues to place value on thinness and almost everyone worries about their weight at least occasionally. However, people with eating disorders take those weight concerns to extremes, developing abnormal eating habits that threaten their well-being and even their lives.
Simply put, eating disorders can be deadly. Self-starvation, binging and purging, or overly-excessive exercise because of an irrational fear of becoming fat may not just be a "fad" that one will easily outgrow. Many times, eating disorders are lifelong battles.
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Last Updated: April 2008
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Introduction
