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EATING DISORDERS STATISTICS

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Topic: Eating disorders
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Sort Desciption: 1 in 5 women struggle with an eating disorder or disordered eating. National Institute of Mental Healths (NIMH) guide, Eating Disorders: Facts About Eating Disorders and the Search for Solutions ...

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Eating Disorders affect up to 24 million Americans and 70 million individuals worldwide. The Renfrew Center Foundation for Eating Disorders, Eating Disorders 101 Guide: A Summary of Issues, Statistics and Resources, published September 2002, revised October 2003, http://www.renfrew.org . An estimated 10 to 15% of people with anorexia or bulimia are male. Carlat, D.J. Camargo. Review of Bulimia in Males. American Journal of Psychiatry, 154, 1997 90 % of those who have eating disorders are women between the ages of 12 and 25. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, The Center for Mental Health Services, offices of the US Department of Health and Human Services. It is estimated that currently 11% of high school students have been diagnosed with an eating disorder. ANAD Ten Year Study. National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders. www.anad.org 15% of young women in the US who are not diagnosed with an eating disorder display substantially disordered eating attitudes and behaviors . Girl Power!, a public education program of the US Department of Health and Human Services. A Study conducted by Cornell University found that 40% of male football players surveyed engaged in some sort of disordered eating behavior. (Newsweek, 1994) The most common behavior that will lead to an eating disorder is dieting. Natalia Zunino, Ph.D, of American Anorexia and Bulimia Association, Inc. The diet and diet related industry is a 50 billion dollar a year enterprise . Garner, D.W., Wooley, S.C. (1991), Confronting the failure of behavioral and dietary treatments for obesity. Clinical Psychology Review, 11, pp. 727-780. 35% of normal dieters progress to pathological dieting. Of those, 20-25% progress to partial or full syndrome eat ...

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