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Eating Disorders-A Growing Epidemic
Rachel Craig's anorexia started when she was 11, in the summer of 1996. She'd just finished fifth grade in Colorado Springs, 60 miles from Denver. An avid reader, she loved Madeleine L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time, and playing softball with her younger sister, Anna. But the year had been hard for her. Her friends, a group of dancers, started a new clique without her. At 4'10" and 100 pounds, she was self-conscious. Boys at school called her fat; she felt like the chubby one in family Christmas photos. She swore that sixth grade would be different. She'd be thinner. Popular. That summer, Rachel started jogging three miles a day. Researching nutrition, she discovered what calories were. As the months went by, she ate less. If she wasn't a little hungry, how was she going to get thin? By sixth grade, she'd lost 30 pounds, bringing a solitary plum to school for lunch. Any excitement she'd felt about being skinny was overshadowed by an obsession with food. When not eating in front of her classmates at lunch became embarrassing, she started making sandwiches — diet bread, mustard, and lettuce — so they'd think she was normal, but after school, she'd get straight on the StairMaster for 45 minutes a day. By Christmas, "I wasn't even aware of the world around me anymore. I was completely cut off," she says. (Moura,2011). Sadly this is only one of the thousand of stories of different people who suffer this disorder, who die before someone notices the significance of this condition.
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