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Wed 12 Dec 2008Crying out for anorexia aid
The lack of public in-patient services for those suffering from anorexia is the subject of a judicial review this week, writes Fionola Meredith.
IT'S A brutal, life-threatening illness, moving with silent speed among a generation of teenage girls who have grown up in a body-conscious culture, bombarded with images of super-skinny women. It is estimated that 7,000 adolescents in the State are affected by Anorexia Nervosa. A recent survey, Eating Problems In Children and Adolescents (Epica), and carried out by St John of God's Lucena Foundation in Rathgar, Dublin, found that up to 11 per cent of teenage girls have "significant eating concerns".
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