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  • Around 10-20% of Anorexia sufferers will eventually die from related illnesses or complications of Anorexia.
  • The numbers of Male sufferers of eating problems are slowly creeping up.
  • The mortality rate is 5-15% - the highest of any psychological disease
  • 7 million women and 1 million men in the USA suffer from an eating problem.
  • 2-5% of persons diagnosed with eating problems commit suicide
  • Most fashion models are thinner than 98% of the American population