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Are you a Healthy Eater? Problems with Food Emotional Eating What is Healthy Eating? Myths Do I have an Eating Disorder? The Healthy Body Survey Why do you eat?

Body Image Taking a Look at Exercise Teasing Getting Help? Making Changes

Fast Fact: Even as young as age 5, girls who are overweight and are subject to food restriction or dieting show the greatest increases in eating in the absence of hunger, and greater weight gain across middle childhood years.

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Fast Fact: Kids who diet are more apt to become overweight adults. Fast Fact: A high risk group for eating disorders are those who had high weight concerns prior to age 14

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Did You Know ?   Dieting is the worst way to lose weight   Not all anorexics are thin, and that anorexics can and do eat   Eating disorders are a misuse of food to resolve emotional problems   Fat-free eating is not healthy eating   When children restrict food in their early years, they are greatly risk to become overweight adults.   Most fashion models are thinner than 98% of Americans   To lose weight effectively, eat heathfully, not less   95% of dieters regain their lost weight within one to five years

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