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Health Tip: Eating Disorder Can Hurt Your Child
By LadyLively on December 18, 2014
An eating disorder, such as binge eating, bulimia or emotional eating, can be dangerous at any age, particularly for a teenager.
The American Academy of Family Physicians mentions these potential health consequences of an eating disorder:
- Weight gain or loss.
- Difficulty concentrating.
- Problems of the stomach, heart, teeth or kidneys.
- Osteoporosis.
- Dry skin.
- In severe cases, death.
Source: HealthDay
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