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—ANOREXIA PATIENT, AGE 11, explaining why she had starved herself to the point of hospitalization; recent data show a sharp increase in hospitalizations due to eating disorders, particularly in younger children: between 1999 and 2006, hospitalizations rose 119% in children under 12. [via ABC News]
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