[quote=scaredycat]Anorexia has an incidence of between 8 and 13 cases per 100,000 persons per year and an average prevalence of 0.3%. odds are, she’ll be too big. just statsitically…most of us are overweight now.[/quote]
Maybe it’s where we live, but it looks much more prevalent than that. I personally know quite a few people who have eating disorders (anorexia and/or bulimia). Maybe the statistics are so low because it’s more difficult to quantify than if someone is overweight. Most people with eating disorders lie about it, so how do they get their numbers? Do they count only the ones who are so sick that the illness is beyond obvious (i.e.: they’re about to die from malnutrition, or they have heart attacks at 25, and weigh 90 pounds)?
