Eating may be a form of compensation for a major loss or means of securing attention from adults whom otherwise might not notice a child. ... In a society obsessed with thinness nearly every American man, women and child has suffered at one time or another with issues of weight, body shape and self-image. "As many as one fifth of all U.S. women in high school and college display at least temporary bulimic symptoms...

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