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Eating

Disorders

                                                                      Facts:​
                                                                          Prevalence:
                                                                                8.6% Women
                                                                                4.07% Men
                                                                         Binge Eating:
                                                                                5.7% Women     (More than
                                                                                4.1% Men               doubled since 1998)
                                                                         Extreme Dieting:
                                                                                4.3% Women     (Nearly tripled
                                                                                2.4% Men           since 1998)

"Every 62 Minutes, at least one person dies as a direct result of an eating disorder."
- Break Binge Eating (2020)

 Purging:
          1.5% Women     (Increased for men
          .5% Men          fourfold since 1998)
     
     Around 15% of people with eating disorders attempt suicide.
     13% of women over 50 have an eating disorder.
     16% of transgender college students have an eating disorder.
     As much as 25% of athletes have eating disorders.

SOURCES
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- Keski-Rahkonen A, Raevuori A, Hoek HW. Epidemiology of eating disorders: an update. Annual Review of Eating Disorders: CRC Press 2018:66-76.
- Pc.gov.au. 2020. Paying The Price: The Economic And Social Impact Of Eating Disorders In Australia. [online] Available at: https://www.pc.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0017/215540/sub0078-ndis-costs-attachmenta.pdf
- Mitchison D, Hay PJ, Slewa-Younan S, et al. The changing demographic profile of eating disorder behaviors in the community. BMC Public Health. 2014;14:943.
Coelho, J. S., Suen, J., Clark, B. A., Marshall, S. K., Geller, J., & Lam, P. Y. (2019). Eating disorder diagnoses and symptom presentation in transgender youth: A scoping review. Current Psychiatry Reports, 21(11), 107.

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