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The ‘silent epidemic’ of eating disorders, with Cheri Levinson, PhD

Speaking of Psychology

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The Role of Toxic Diet Culture in Promoting Eating Disorders in the United States

The estimate is in the next year, there's going to be 2.9 million new cases of eating disorders and kids and adolescents just in theNext year. Are we so focused on obesity because of these inaccurate messages about what it means to be larger? Is it really a problem? Maybe not. And maybe we need to be thinking more about the harm that we're causing with eating disorders instead of falsely trying to change people's body size.

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