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June Engel (1993), found that today’s society’s idealization of thinness is producing an alarming increase in eating disorders especially among young women. The never-ending efforts to lose weight and conform to the media image of an “ideal” shape are lea ....

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.... of Mental Health (1993) reported that even though it’s easier to talk about anorexia and bulimia being different conditions, individual patients often suffer from symptoms of both. Indeed, it often happens that bulimia develops after a period of months or years of anorexic symptoms. Women suffer from these disorders 10 times more than men, and so this leaflet refers to the sufferer as “she”! Although often thought of as adult problems these disorders most often start in the teenage years while the sufferer is still at home. Corben and Lindsey (1990) described that lots of people are becoming aware of obesity. Though these concerns are ....