General Article A million Britons have an eating disorder - how are they treated?

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It was brave of Lily Allen to admit recently that she has suffered from bulimia – and that, despite her being deeply unhappy, friends kept saying she looked great. This is a paradox about eating disorders: most sufferers aren’t skeletal extremes and many patients I see with these problems look relatively healthy. But they aren’t. Ultimately, if they do not get treatment, most will suffer from complications related to nutritional deficiencies, not to mention the mental distress that accompa...

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