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There are many notes and facts about eating disorders. Some are...

*Eating disorder affect an estimated 1 in every 200 people.

*Of that, 1 in every 250 is anorexic.

*Bulimia is the most common eating disorder

*11% of all people have forcefully thrown up (purged) at least once in their life.

*About 20% of people with eating disorders die from the disorder or die from a side-effect or direct result of the disorder.

*Those affected by eating disorders women:men is 9:1.

*95% of eating disorder occus in middle- or upper-class families.

*2/3 of eating disorder cases occur in "western" society (america, west Europe, ect.)

*73% of people who have an eating disorder also have a substance abuse problem (drugs, alcohol, smoking, ect.)

*Only about 30% of people with eating disorders every fully recover (most will just relapse)

*Eating disorders are one of the fasted rising disease in the world annually

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