Study: Genes, brain chemistry may determine anorexia

June 16, 2006

Luanne Sanders remembers her first diet, when she was 14 years old, because the results were so dramatic. No sooner had she decided to lose weight than she found herself plunging into a binge-purge cycle it took her decades to overcome.



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