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Key Facts on Eating Disorders - A healthy BMI reading for a woman should be between 18.5 and 25. Anything under 18.5 is deemed to be underweight and anything under 15 is deemed to be ‘starvation’ - Google provides 1,960,000 results for obesity, yet just 471,000 results for anorexia proving that more attention is thrown on obesity than those with severe eating disorders - Cases of anorexia and bullimia among girls under 18 admitted for treatment have leapt by 47% in the last 3 years, and there has been a 25% increase in girls under nine being treated for eating disorders (Lib Dem figures, May 2009) - Brazillian fashion model Ana Carolina Reston Marcan died due to complications of anorexia in 2006. She weighed 88lbs and had a BMI of just 13.4. Her death encouraged Madrid Fashion Week to ban models with BMIs under 18 - Approximately 55,540 women between 15 and 30 in the UK suffer from anorexia (Mind, 2006) - Eating disorders are a serious mental illness affecting 1.1 million people in the UK (Beat, 2009) - 30% of anorexia sufferers will continue to experience the illness long-term (Royal College of Psychiatrists) - Although dress sizes in inches differ from brand to brand, each dress size has a difference of approximately two inches. This means to go from a size 12 down to a size 8 would mean losing a massive 4 inches from around your waist. And to be a ‘size zero’ (a UK size 4) you would have to lose double that – 8 inches - In a recent poll of 3000 teenagers, 75% said they felt they needed to lose weight after looking at pictures of skinny stars such as Kate Moss and Nicole Richie (Lib Dem figures, May 2009) |
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