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    • Family Counseling
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Eating Disorders

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Signs of an Eating Disorder
  • Restrictive and unusual about food
  • Won't eat in front of others
  • Collects recipes and cooks meals for others without eating
  • Food goes missing
  • Avoids others
  • Focus on body shape and size
  • There is a change in clothing worn
There is a commonly held view that eating disorders are a lifestyle choice. Eating disorders are actually serious and often fatal illnesses that cause severe disturbances to a person’s eating behaviors. Obsessions with food, body weight, and shape may also signal an eating disorder. Common eating disorders include anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge-eating disorder.
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