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__ Topic: __ Eating Disorder

__ Citation: __ Campbell, Denis. "Anorexia Risk 'Could Be Predicted'." //The Observer (London, England)//. 29 Mar 2009: 15. //SIRS Researcher.// Web. 15 Apr 2011. Schwarz, Fred. "Not Our Stars But Ourselves." //National Review Vol. 61, No. 3//. 23 Feb 2009: 22-24. //SIRS Researcher.// Web. 15 Apr 2011.

Ogilvie, Megan. "How Biology Trumps Image As Cause of Anorexia 'I Became Obsessive..." //Toronto Star (Toronto, Canada)//. 13 Apr 2008: A1+. //SIRS Researcher.// Web. 15 Apr 2011. "Eating Disorders." //National Institute of Mental Health//. N.p., 2001. Web. 10 May 2011. [].

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15 per cent of people with anorexia die from it. IT is one of he most deadly diseases. most likely rooterd in a persons genes. only 70 per sent of people on diets develope anorexia. the rates of anorexia have not changed in the lst 30 years, but other eating disorders have changed. __ ﻿ __

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it has been around since at the latest the 1680's from when Thomans Hobbes wroe about it. it was found in france during the 1900 hundreds, as well as with chorus girls.

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many girls get anorexia because of how their brains develope in the womb. Can cause heart attacks.

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she was anorexic, and she she had it for 16 years. She talks about how people think its not aa big deal but it is. that it messes up your mental capasity, that its hard to cahgne your mind set, it unhealthy. "will power and self hatred are two very different things." "i can now concentrate better" Alliance of Eatign Disorders Awareness "over half the females between the ages of 18-25 would prefer to be run over by a truck than be fat." people with anorexia will die within 20 years of being diagnosed. can cause bone deteriation, the loss of bones, causing one to age 50 years with their bones.

That's why I wanted to chase that girl in the Publix down, and shake her, and tell her that if her whole life centers on being thin, she's missing all the really important things. The reasons for living.

I didn't, of course. I'm a stranger--why would she listen to me?

But maybe she's your daughter, or your sister, or your friend. And maybe she'll listen to you.

[] heart conditions and kidney failure depression is often linked