By Rachel Cannon |Staff Writer| Eating disorders wreak havoc on not only the physical but the mental health of those that suffer from them. The number of those suffering rises every year. Female college students are by far at the greatest risk for developing such a problem. According to the Massachusetts Eating Disorders Association, up to 40 percent of college women suffer from disorders such as anorexia, bulimia and binge eating disorder (BED). That means if there are 15 women in you classroom as you read this, odds are that up to six of them are endangering their health through extreme dieting, binging, purging, or some combination of the three. On top of the damage this is … [Read more...] about Eating disorders require on-campus specialists
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