Facts:
- Eating Disorders are psychological disorders and have the second highest fatality rate for mental diseases.
- 95% of adult women overestimate their body size.
- Eating disorder behavior usually begins between 13-18 years of age, but is often not diagnosed until the late 20's or 30's.
- Bulimia sufferers will eat as many as 20,000 calories in one sitting before inducing vomiting.
- Eating disorders cross racial, economic, and educational boundaries.
- Complications from bulimia can cause kidney failure, cardiac arrest, ulcers of the intestinal tract and damage to the reproductive system.
- Many people with eating disorders are addicted to exercise.
- Obesity is a complex metabolic disorder.
- A large majority of people suffering from eating disorders are malnourished, have irregular heart rhythms, electrolyte imbalances and could be on the verge of kidney failure.
- Victims of eating disorders generally have very low self-esteem.
Fallacies:
- I can fix myself. This is just a phase.
- Eating disorders happen only to people who are vain.
- I can stop any time I want to.
- Men don't develop eating disorders.
- I don't need my family's help; I can help myself.
- Just two more pounds to lose, then I'll be OK.
- Nobody will love me if I'm fat, including myself.
- I can live without those calories.
- Drinking lots of coffee and smoking will keep me thin.
- I'll be really healthy if I exercise all the time, even if I don't eat.
- If I pretend to eat, no one will know I'm not eating.
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