What Is the Paradox of Eating Disorders

question 44

Multiple Choice

What is the paradox of eating disorders?

• A) Anorexia is more likely to occur in countries where malnutrition is prevalent.
• B) The increasing emphasis on thinness in the United States is occurring as the population is becoming heavier.
• C) As the popularity of healthy clubs is increasing in the United States, eating disorders are becoming more prevalent.
• D) In the past decade, male prevalence rates of obesity have come to surpass female rates of obesity.

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