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At 5 feet 4 inches, Samantha Smith weighed just 67 pounds, and her sunken eyes and wrinkled, baggy skin made her look twice her age. Despite this, she was still in denial about her life-threatening eating disorder.
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Reality television icon, actress, and mother of two Nicole Richie recently talked with Marie Claire in hopes of dispelling rumors that she was once anorexic. The 28 year old, who was once a size 0, caused some fans to worry in 2006 when photos of her alarmingly thin frame in a bikini surfaced. At the time, she told Vanity Fair, "I know I’m too thin right now. I’m not happy with the way I look right now."
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Although eating disorders are most common in teenagers and young adults, they can also occur in younger children. To learn more about this, CNN’s Living Well Expert Dr. Jennifer Shu consulted Sari Fine Shepphird, Ph.D., a clinical psychologist and author of "100 Questions and Answers about Anorexia Nervosa."
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In 1988, Abby Ellin was a junior in college, studying abroad in the Middle East and Europe. Describing herself as a chubby adolescent who spent six summers at “fat camp,” she was terrified of gaining weight, although she loved to eat. She writes in the New York Times that “to maintain some semblance of control” she would divide her eating into “Food Days” and “Nonfood Days,” or days when she ate vast amounts and those when she restricted her caloric intake “with military precision.”
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After Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino mocked his “Jersey Shore” co-star’s "rolls" on last week’s episode, Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi, 21, tearfully announced she once battled an eating disorder.
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New data released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show that while obesity rates in the United States are still sky-high, they appear to have stabilized.
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In an article for the New York Times, reporter Jane Brody described her experience with binge-eating disorder: “A half-gallon of ice cream was only the beginning. I was capable of consuming 3,000 calories at a sitting. Many mornings I awakened to find partly chewed food still in my mouth…My despair was profound, and one night in the midst of a binge I became suicidal. I had lost control of my eating; it was controlling me, and I couldn’t go on living that way.”
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Researchers from the University of Minnesota Project Eating Among Teens (EAT) have identified factors that may increase overweight adolescents’ risk of engaging in extreme weight control behaviors such as self-induced vomiting, the use of diet pills, laxatives, and diuretics, as well as binge eating.
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A team of scientists at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences and the National Institutes of Health has piloted a psychotherapy treatment to prevent excessive weight gain in teenager girls deemed “at risk” for obesity.
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