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ANSWER KEY:
1. Answer: b.
While malnourishment, osteoporosis and liver disease could garner an anorexic an extended hospital stay, the most common reason that anorexics are hospitalized is heart damage.
2. Answer: c.
Anxiety problems often go hand-in-hand with anorexia (or other eating disorders).
3. Answer: a.
Anorexia is thought to affect less than 1 percent of the population. (There is a caveat to that, however, since many people are not properly diagnosed. Thus, the results may be slightly skewed.)
4. Answer: c.
About 90 percent of all anorexics are female.
5. Answer: b.
Anorexia has been diagnosed in girls …read more

Who can blame girls and women for obsessing over the shape of their bodies?  Just take a gander at three of the weight-related news stories from the past week that I’ve listed below.

Kate Beckinsale eats dessert (probably a poached pear…) This article by Popeater is an interview with Beckinsale who claims that she no longer starves herself. Hm. Not sure what to believe. She’s not stick-skinny, but she’s not meaty, either. I guess by Hollywood’s standards she’s a horse?

The Dancing with the Stars “fat chicks” scandal has my blood boiling. Rumor has it that dancers Maksim Chmerkovsky and Louis van Amstel called …read more