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By Matthew Tiemeyer, About.com Guide to Eating Disorders

Ethnic Differences in Weight-Loss Behaviors

Thursday May 8, 2008

The stereotype suggesting that eating disorders apply only to rich young white women is mercifully fading, but the question of how eating disorders affect different ethnic populations remains.

It turns out that black women, for example, generally see their bodies differently than white women. Definitions of what is "beautiful" are different. Yet black women manifest some traits common among those with eating disorders at even higher rates than their white counterparts.

What do the differences look like? And should they affect treatment planning?

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