A recent study conducted by SELF magazine, in partnership with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has found that 65% of American women between the ages of 25 and 45 have disordered eating behaviors. An additional 10% of women admitted to behaviors consistent with eating disorders.

"'What we found most surprising was the unexpectedly high number of women who engage in unhealthy purging activities,' said [Cynthia R.] Bulik, who is also a nutrition professor in the [UNC] School of Public Health. 'More than 31 percent of women in the survey reported that in an attempt to lose weight they had induced vomiting or had taken laxatives, diuretics or diet pills at some point in their life."

SELF magazine's editor-in-chief Lucy Danziger said she hopes this information will help the magazine's readers determine whether their eating habits are healthy or not, and take action if necessary. Source: Newsmax

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