Brazil Transfixed by 4th Anorexia Death
December 28, 2006
Brazilian model Ana Carolina Reston participates in a fashion show in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, in this April 14, 2005, file photo. Reston, a 21-year-old anorexic model who weighed only 88 pounds died Tuesday Nov. 14, 2006 of generalized infection. The struggle for food has long been a drama for millions of impoverished Brazilians. But these days the nation is transfixed by another sort of starvation: anorexia among the successful and well off. (AP Photo/Eugenio Savio)
(AP) -- The struggle for food has long been a drama for millions of impoverished Brazilians. But these days the nation is transfixed by another sort of starvation: anorexia among the successful and well off.
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