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EATING DISORDERS
In the 7th grade me and my friend Ashley, discovered the magazines called Seventeen, and YM. These are the Cosmopolitan and Vogue of teenage girls. On the cover of each monthly issue are featured beautiful skinny girls with headlines like: "Great new exercise plan", or " look great for summer, with this fast paced diet". ....
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.... enough to survive, leaving their bodies undernourished and sick. Anorexia often leads to Bulimia, which is also psychological in origin and can have dire physical consequences. Unlike anorexia, in which the victims starve themselves, bulimia victims binge on food and then purge by self-induced vomiting. Due to the fact that the vomiting takes place secretly, not all cases are reported, but it is estimated that approximately one fifth of all American women are afflicted, mostly teenage girls.
As I mentioned earlier, I too was afflicted by these eating disorders, but luckily ....
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