Some Stats on Eating Disorders,  | one out of every one hundred young women between ten and twenty are starving themselves | | Anorexia and bulimia affect primarily people in their teens and twenties, but clinicians report both disorders in children as young as six and individuals as old as seventy-six | | 8 million people in the United States suffer from eating disorders (National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders) | | 15% of young women have some kind of disordered eating patterns | | With treatment, about sixty percent (60%) of people with eating disorders recover (ANRED) | | about twenty percent (20%) of people with eating disorders make only partial recoveries. (ANRED) |
| twenty percent (20%) do not improve, even with treatment (ANRED) | | without treatment the death rate is around 20-30% due to complications from the illness | | Studies indicate that by their first year of college, 4.5 to 18 percent of women and 0.4 percent of men have a history of bulimia and that as many as 1 in 100 females between the ages of 12 and 18 have anorexia. | | It is estimated that 200,000 to 300,000 Canadian women aged 13 to 40 have anorexia and twice as many have bulimia. These illnesses are fatal for 10 to 15 per cent of those affected (National Institute of Nutrition - Feb 1993) | | Reported by the Canadian Press, one study of 11 year old girls found that 44 per cent were on a diet to lose weight. | | 51% of 9 and 10 year-old girls feel better about themselves if they are on a diet (Mellin et al., 1991). | | a study of girls aged 9-15 reported that 1 out of 20 reported using diet pills, over half exercised and less than half ate less in attempts to lose weight | The following Charts where created by Sarah Tabah, using the information above and from other excellent sources such as http://www.eating-disorder.org Please ask before using, or at least tell me you are using them. and if you spot any errors feel free to email me (sorry about the quality, I discovered that the previous versions did not appear on Mac based computers so I had to print and scan the previous ones and this is the result. I will try to get better quality copies soon |
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