New study refutes bulimia as “rich, white girl’s disease”


	New study refutes bulimia as “rich, white girl’s disease”

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/b7db49a6-2e0c-452c-93ac-baf6c76fb9bb/D1769484-2647-4A56-93ED-82A8E69BB25B/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://the-f-word.org/blog/index.php/2009/03/20/new-study-refutes-bulimia-as-rich-white-girls-disease/" href="http://the-f-word.org/blog/index.php/2009/03/20/new-study-refutes-bulimia-as-rich-white-girls-disease/" style="font-size: 11px;">the-f-word.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://the-f-word.org/blog/index.php/2009/03/20/new-study-refutes-bulimia-as-rich-white-girls-disease/"><P>Eating disorders are often thought to be a “rich white girl’s disease,” but a <A href="http://www.suntimes.com/lifestyles/1486993,CST-NWS-bulimic20.article">new study</A> shows that black girls and girls from low-income families are more likely to develop bulimia than their wealthier white counterparts.  The study is based on information from a government database of 2,300 girls from schools in California, Ohio and Washington D.C.  The girls were surveyed annually about their eating habits and body image between the ages of 9 and 20.  The study included an equal number of blacks and whites.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://the-f-word.org/blog/index.php/2009/03/20/new-study-refutes-bulimia-as-rich-white-girls-disease/">About 2.6 percent of black girls were found to be bulimic, compared to 1.7 percent of whites.  Bulimia affected 3.3 percent of girls whose parents had a high school education, compared to 1.5 percent of girls in households where at least one parent had a college degree.  In other words, black girls are <STRONG>50 percent more likely</STRONG> than whites to develop bulimia, while girls in low income brackets are <STRONG>153 percent more likely</STRONG> to develop bulimia than girls in the highest income bracket.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/D1769484-2647-4A56-93ED-82A8E69BB25B/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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