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Article: NEW HOPE TO BEAT EATING DISORDERS; A south-of-the-river program for adults will use holistic practices such as yoga and acupressure, as well as more traditional counseling practices, to help patients.(SOUTH)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
- Article date:
- August 2, 2006
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Byline: Emily Johns; Staff Writer
When Krista started high school, she and her friends had a competition.
They would talk during lunch every day to see who was winning - competing to see who could go the longest without eating.
They'd pool their money to buy diet pills, and Krista would lie to her parents when asked what she'd had for lunch that day. Her mom put money into the school lunch account but noticed it was never being used.
Krista, 19, asked not to be identified by her last name. But the 2005 graduate of Eagan High School said she grew so familiar with her eating disorder that she could pick out other girls in school who were ...