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April 12, 2007

The Growing World Wide ED

World Wide “ED?” That’s short for “World Wide Eating Disorder” epidemic. It’s a horrifying trend and is growing at an alarming rate; conservatively, it involves hundreds of millions of individuals.

I did a quick skim of the medical literature and found eating disorders and body image problems cropping up in Great Britain, Australia, and New Zealand; Croatia, Sweden, and Israel; Mexico, Brazil, China, Japan, Ghana, and South Africa. Even Fiji.

Fiji? It’s a Polynesian island that has been meandering along under balmy blue skies for 3,000 years – with only one recorded case of an eating disorder. Yet, Fiji is now part of the global epidemic.

How did that happen?

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