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Eating Disorders

All athletes aim to maximize their performance in their sport. They can obviously benefit from paying attention to what they eat. However, for some people these interests develop into an unhealthy obsession with food, calories and body weight. They worry continuously about what they are going to eat, when and where they're going to eat, how much weight they'll put on if they go out for a meal with friends, how many hours they'll have to exercise to burn off those calories, how they can avoid eating unwholesome foods, and so on.
Such an obsession with food and body weight is termed as an eating disorder. Eating disorders appear to be increasing throughout the United States. For example, the number of people seeking treatment for anorexia and bulimia in one California hospital has increased by 360 percent over the last nine years.
Experts argue that one factor is a fashion and celebrity model of the "perfect body" which has become gradually thinner over the......

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