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Statistics
- Thirty percent (30%) of women who seek treatment to lose weight have binge eating disorder. (Drugs and Therapy Perspectives)
- About seventy-two percent (72%) of alcoholic women younger than 30 also have eating disorders. (Health magazine, Jan/Feb 2002)
- Without treatment, up to twenty percent (20%) of people with serious eating disorders die. With treatment, that number falls to two to three percent (2-3%).
- With treatment, about sixty percent (60%) of people with eating disorders recover.
- Approximately 1 million males have an eating disorder.
- It is estimated that currently eleven percent (11%) of high school students have been diagnosed with an eating disorder. (ANAD)
- Eighty percent (80%) of all children have been on a diet by the time that they have reached the fourth grade. (Time Magazine)
- Fifteen percent (15%) of young women have substantially disordered eating attitudes and behaviors. (National Eating Disorder Screening Program)
- 2 out of 5 women and 1 out of 5 men would trade 3 to 5 years of their life to achieve their goal body weight. (Rader Programs)
- Ninety-one percent (91%) of women surveyed on a college campus had attempted to control their weight through dieting, 22% dieted "often" or "always." (Kurth et. al)
- Thirty-five percent (35%) of "normal dieters" progress to pathological dieting. Of those, twenty-twenty five percent 20-25% progress to partial or full syndrome eating disorders. (Shisslak & Crago)
- A Study conducted by Cornell University found that 40% of male football players surveyed engaged in some sort of disordered eating behavior. (Newsweek)
- Men constitute as many as forty percent (40%) of those exhibiting Binge Eating Disorder. (DSM IV)
- An estimated 1 in 3 of all dieters develop compulsive dieting attitudes and behaviors. Of these, one quarter will develop full or partial eating disorders.
- In a study done on men in the navy, 51.3% had an eating disorder, anorexia (scoring 13%) being the most common one.
- Forty-two percent (42%) of men with bulimia are homosexual or bisexual.
Fifty-seventy percent (50-70%) of all eating disorder sufferers also suffer from depression and/or anxiety.
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