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Anorexia Impacts Middle-Aged Women, Too

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First Posted: 10/14/11 04:55 PM ET Updated: 12/14/11 05:12 AM ET

www.empowher.com:

Because most people associate eating disorders with adolescent girls, it may surprise them to learn that there are quite a few middle-aged people suffering from them as well. Middle-aged women not only suffer from anorexia nervosa but they are dying from this debilitating obsession with calorie restriction as well.

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Because most people associate eating disorders with adolescent girls, it may surprise them to learn that there are quite a few middle-aged people suffering from them as well. Middle-aged women not onl...
Because most people associate eating disorders with adolescent girls, it may surprise them to learn that there are quite a few middle-aged people suffering from them as well. Middle-aged women not onl...
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StrawHat
Eat veggies, don't vote for them
09:39 PM on 10/14/2011
Good luck finding an insurance company that will cover treatment of eating disorders at ANY age.

It's a national disgrace that we allow insurance companies to pick and choose which diseases they will cover.
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karen lyons kalmenson
i poem/paint, sometimes, i ain't
06:41 PM on 10/14/2011
indeed it does, as we see the depravity of time and gravity