Eating Disorders

A high school student allows herself to eat less than six hundred calories a day. Months go by as her body withers. Her friends and family are aghast at her emaciated appearance. Nevertheless, she still agonizes over being "too fat." A college student regularly downs six or seven thousand calories in a single hour. Then she make herself throw up before her body can digest the massive amount of food. Eating disorders like these affect five million people each year in America alone, and many mo…