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Eating disorders are becoming more widespread and increasing in the Western countries. Research has shown that about one percent of young women between the ages of ten and twenty are starving themselves, and around eighty percent of people are unhappy with their appearance. Eight million people suffer from an eating disorder and are dying to be thin. I watched two shows, The Tyra Banks Show and The Real World Key West, which revealed someone with an eating disorder.
Scarlett Pomer, an actress on the TV show Reba, suffered from an eating disorder. Over the Christmas holiday, she gained a little bit of weight and wanted to get back to the weight she had before. When she was losing the weight, she started getting a lot of attention. She started her eating disorder when she was getting a lot of compliments and satisfaction from other people.
Scarlett did some research, looking for tricks and tips from other anorexia articles. She constantly had food in her mind and was......

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