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<p style="font-size: 18pt; font-weight:bold; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif';"><a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/your-own-worst-enemy-celebrating-national-eating-disorders-awareness-week/">Your Own Worst Enemy: National Eating Disorders Awareness Week</a></p> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif';">Posted February 29, 2008 at 12:00 PM by Caroline Shannon</p> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif'">While “death” is not a word that many people most likely associate with food, that grim reality is one that has become quickly attached to women and disordered eating. According to the National Institute of Mental Health, over the course of a lifetime about 0.5 to 3.7 percent of girls and women will develop anorexia nervosa, and about 1.1 to 4.2 percent will develop bulimia nervosa. What’s more, about 0.5 percent of those with anorexia die each year as a result of their illness, making it one of the top psychiatric illnesses that lead to death. What better time to help put an end to these awful conditions, than by honoring National Eating Disorders Awareness Week It…<a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/your-own-worst-enemy-celebrating-national-eating-disorders-awareness-week/">(<a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/your-own-worst-enemy-celebrating-national-eating-disorders-awareness-week/">Continued...</a>)<br clear="all" /><br> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif'"><a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/your-own-worst-enemy-celebrating-national-eating-disorders-awareness-week/">Read the full article...</a> | <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/your-own-worst-enemy-celebrating-national-eating-disorders-awareness-week/">Comment on this post</a></p> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif'">Filed under: <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/her-health/">her-health</a>, <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/body-image/">body-image</a>, <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/eating-disorders/">eating-disorders</a>, <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/her-motivation/">her-motivation</a><br /><br /> </P>