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Article: Fighting weight; Eating disorders in men overlooked.(LIFE - HEALTH)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- September 14, 2004
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Byline: Christian Toto, THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Many celebrity watchers gasped at the sight of a gaunt Mary-Kate Olsen in the weeks before she checked into a clinic to treat an eating disorder this summer.
That sadness reminded fans of singer Karen Carpenter's 1983 death from the same condition.
No high-profile male figure has admitted to an eating disorder, but that doesn't mean millions of men aren't suffering from these potentially deadly disorders.
Some eating-disorder experts estimate that one in every 10 patients is male, despite the lack of notoriety connecting men to the disorders.
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