A Group of Clinicians Is Creating a New Eating Disorders

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Essay

A group of clinicians is creating a new eating disorders prevention program.They are targeting the program toward white adolescents under the assumption that other ethnic groups are relatively protected from eating disorders.Why might they have this assumption and how accurate is it?

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