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About those contagious eating disorders...

Posted on April 24, 2008

While Charlotte sleeps the night away in NYC awaiting her star turn on the Mike & Juliet show (yay!), I wanted to share with you a few of the responses I received after asking if any of you feel like you ever caught an eating disorder.The idea of EDs as contagious has been in the news lately after a study in the International Journal of Eating Disorders of more than 15,000 American high school students showed that eating disordered behaviors - binging, fasting, diet pill use, exercising and more (but not purging) - clustered among girls within counties, regardless of location (rural, subur...

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anorexia , bulimia , calories , diet , eating disorders , exercising , gym , obese , overweight , running
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