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Craving Control: student to share her story of a ten-year battle with anorexia at upcoming lecture on eating disorders

In a country with a $40 billion diet industry and an advertised body type that only five percent of American females naturally possess, eating disorders permeate American culture and have the highest mortality rate of any mental disease. Whether binging, purging or avoiding food entirely, 24 million people in the US suffer from eating disorders, 95% of whom are between the ages of 12 and 25, according to the Renfrew Center Foundation.

Though stereotypes of eating disorders may conjure up images …

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