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Monday, 01/26/2009 9:26:35 AM

Monday, January 26, 2009 9:26:35 AM

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Dieting is out of control in the United States...
Almost half of American children between first and third grades say they want to be thinner.
Four out of five ten-year-old children are afraid of being fat.
On any given day, one in four men are on a diet.
Half of our nine and ten-year-old girls say that being on a diet makes them feel better about themselves.
More than one out of three "normal dieters" progress to pathological dieting. One fourth of those will suffer from partial or full syndrome eating disorders.
Americans spend over forty billion dollars a year on dieting and diet related products.
Between five and ten million women and girls in the United States struggle with eating disorders and borderline conditions.
One million boys and men struggle with eating disorders and borderline conditions.
The number of people with eating disorders and borderline conditions is triple the number of people living with AIDS (664,921 people are living with AIDS).
Eating disorders affect at least three times as many people as schizophrenia does (2.2 million people are living with schizophrenia).