Black Girls Are 50 Percent More Likely To Be Bulimic Than White Girls
Tuesday, March 24, 2009 - 20:21
in Psychology & Sociology
An important new study challenges the widespread perception that bulimia primarily affects privileged, white teenagers such as "Gossip Girl" character Blair Waldorf, who battled bulimia on a television show earlier this season. Rather, girls who are African American are 50 percent more likely than girls who are white to be bulimic, the researchers found.
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