Optimum Nutrition

When Very Young Kids Have Eating Disorders

Although anorexia nervosa usually develops during adolescence, a disturbing number of cases have been appearing in young (sometimes very young) children. According to eating disorders specialist Barton J. Blinder, M.D. anorexia has been observed in children as young as four. He cites a Mayo Clinic study of 600 patients of all ages, which found that three percent were prepubescent anorexics.

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