eating disorders

Title: eating disorders
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eating disorders
Eating Disorders A vast amount of research has been done on the subject of eating disorders and their causes. This essay will explore the development of eating disorders in adolescent girls. It will show that these disorders are closely connected to the biological and psychosocial changes that occur during the adolescent period. Many teen girls suffer with anorexia nervosa, an eating disorder in which girls use starvation diets to try to lose weight. They starve …showed first 75 words of 2742 total…
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