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Statistics

April 26, 2011

Drive for Thinness 42% of 1st-3rd grade girls want to be thinner (Collins, 1991). 81% of 10 year olds are afraid of being fat (Mellin et al., 1991). The average American woman is 5’4″ tall and weighs 140 pounds. The average American model is 5’11″ tall and weighs 117 pounds. Most fashion models are thinner … Read more

Anorexia Nervosa Genetics Initiative (ANGI)

September 25, 2018

The Anorexia Nervosa Genetics Initiative (ANGI), an initiative of The Klarman Family Foundation, was at the time the largest and most rigorous genetic investigation of eating disorders ever conducted. Dr. Cynthia Bulik at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill was the lead investigator of ANGI with collaborators from Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden (Dr. Mikael … Read more