Anorexia

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Anorexia or Bulimia: pointers to later depression

Teenage girls with early signs of anorexia and bulimia are twice as likely to be addicted to drugs, suffer a mental illness or have an abortion as an adult, even though most do not develop full-blown eating disorders.
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Social websites like MySpace encourage anorexia, warn charities

Eating disorder charities have called on social websites such as MySpace, Facebook and Youtube to have tighter controls on their content, after they found anorexic girls using them to encourage each other to starve themselves.
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Anorexia and bulimia eating disorders misunderstood by doctors

Doctors are failing to spot eating disorders or follow guidance on how they should be treated, an expert said today.
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