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Eating Disorders

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The past two decades have witnessed a striking increase in the eating disorders, anorexia nervosa and bulimia. Both of these disorders occur most frequently, but not exclusively, in young women. It has been hypothesized that one of the primary reasons for the increase in the prevalence of these eating disorders is our culture’s recent obsession with thinness and a stigma against obesity.

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Kanarek, R.B., Marks-Kaufman, R. (1991). Eating Disorders. In: Nutrition and Behavior. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-6596-9_14

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