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Eating Disorders in Men

Posted on October 07, 2008

When we think of eating disorders, we rarely picture a man working out obsessively, starving himself to look lean or wanting to emulate celebrities on magazine covers. For years, eating disorders have been viewed as a white woman s disease. And estimates of male eating disorders told a similar story: while the majority of women suffered from eating disorders, only about 10 percent of men did. Recent research, however, paints a different, bigger picture: more men are suffering from eating disorders than previously thought. Out of 3,000 people with anorexia and bulimia, 25 percent we...

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