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1. Nearly One-Third of High School Girls Have Serious Eating Disorders

Author

BRUNK, DOUG

Subjects
Eating disorders -- Demographic aspects, Prevalence studies (Epidemiology) -- Analysis, Sex factors in disease -- Analysis
Abstract

SAN DIEGO -- Nearly one-third of girls and one-sixth of boys who participated in the first-ever nationwide survey of eating disorders among high school students have significant eating disorder symptoms. [...]

Published
2001

2. Ethnicity seems to play a role in teens' eating disorder risk

Author

Sullivan, Michele G.

Subjects
Eating disorders -- Risk factors, Eating disorders -- Demographic aspects, Teenage girls -- Demographic aspects, Teenage girls -- Psychological aspects, Teenage girls -- Health aspects
Abstract

Culture appears to play a role in disordered eating. Black and Caribbean girls had the lowest rates of disordered eating, probably because African American culture sends teens the message that [...]

Published
2005

3. Cutting behavior, eating disorders linked in some students: female undergraduates

Author

Jancin, Bruce

Subjects
Eating disorders -- Demographic aspects, Eating disorders -- Statistics, Self-mutilation -- Demographic aspects, Self-mutilation -- Statistics, Women college students -- Behavior
Abstract

DENVER -- Cutting behavior is closely associated with bingeing and purging in female college students, Wendy D. Hoyt, Ph.D., reported at an international conference of the Academy for Eating Disorders. [...]

Published
2003

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