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THE PREVALENCE OF EATING DISORDERS
AMONG COLLEGE FEMALES

I. INTRODUCTION
Eating disorders are mental illnesses that contribute to more deaths than any other, with a 20% mortality rate. In 1998, 150,000 deaths were attributed to the eating disorder known as anorexia. Anorexia can be defined as, "a serious disorder in eating behavior primarily of young women in their teens to early twenties that is characterized especially by a pathological fear of weight gain leading to faulty eating patterns, malnutrition, and unusually excessive weight loss," ("Anorexia Nervosa"). Although only 1-3 % of American women are affected by an eating disorder, it has been estimated that as many as 20% of college women are affected by anorexia, bulimia, or display eating disordered behaviors, (Nelson). As many as one in five undergraduate women say they know a fellow student who has or has had an eating disorder at one point, (Hubbard).
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