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 Eating
disorders cause immeasurable suffering for victims and families.
Eating
disorders have reached epidemic levels in America: all segments
of society, young and old, rich and poor, all minorities,
including African American and Latino
Victims
lose the ability to function effectively -- great personal
loss and loss to society
Caloric
deprivation experiments have shown to produce depression,
anxiety and irritability (Keys, Brozek, Henschel, Mickelsen
& Taylor, 1950).
A
sobering finding is that most bulimics report that the onset
of their eating disorder occurred during a period of dieting
(Hall & Hay, 1991).
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