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FACT SHEET
• 42% of 1st-3rd grade girls want to be thinner.
• 81% of 10 year olds are afraid of being fat.
• 91% of 16 to 25-year-olds suffering from anorexia, bulimia or overeating
said they had been bullied, while 46% said they believed that bullying
had contributed to their eating disorder.
• 69% of girls in 5th-12th grade reported that magazine pictures influenced their idea of a perfect body shape.
• 95% of all dieters will regain their lost weight within 5 years.
• 91% of women surveyed on a college campus had attempted to control
their weight through dieting.
• 25% of college-aged women engage in bingeing and purging as a
weight-management techniuqe.
• It is estimated that clinical eating disorders affect 10-20% of female university students, and 4-10% of male university students.
• Up to 24 million people of all ages and genders suffer from an eating
disorder (anorexia, bulimia, and binge eating disorder) in the U.S.
• Binge Eating Disorder is the most common eating disorder.
• An estimated 10-15% of people with anorexia or bulimia are male.
• Eating disorders have the highest mortality rate of any mental illness.
• 20% of people suffering from anorexia will prematurely die from complications related to their eating disorder, including suicide and heart
problems.
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