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(19,841 posts)at the OP link, you can clearly see a case of anorexia. I have seen enough eating disorders in students to know. Just a quick search will give you some stats, for example:
Students:
91% of women surveyed on a college campus had attempted to control their weight through dieting. 22% dieted often or always.
86% report onset of eating disorder by age 20; 43% report onset between ages of 16 and 20.
Anorexia is the third most common chronic illness among adolescents.
95% of those who have eating disorders are between the ages of 12 and 25.
25% of college-aged women engage in bingeing and purging as a weight-management technique.
The mortality rate associated with anorexia nervosa is 12 times higher than the death rate associated with all causes of death for females 15-24 years old.
Over one-half of teenage girls and nearly one-third of teenage boys use unhealthy weight control behaviors such as skipping meals, fasting, smoking cigarettes, vomiting, and taking laxatives.
In a survey of 185 female students on a college campus, 58% felt pressure to be a certain weight, and of the 83% that dieted for weight loss, 44% were of normal weight.
http://www.anad.org/get-information/about-eating-disorders/eating-disorders-statistics/