Abstract
When Carrie Arnold looks back on her years grappling with anorexia nervosa, she doesn’t think that her drive to eat little and to exercise a lot was triggered by social pressure to be thin. Peer pressure is certainly a risk factor for some people with eating disorders, she says. “But I never read fashion magazines, and I couldn’t tell you who the big models are,” she says. So when she was diagnosed with anorexia in 2001, Arnold had a tough time accepting the popular theory that young girls and boys acquired eating disorders simply because of the “thin is in” ideal. She also didn’t think the theory of bad parenting—something her therapists explored as a factor in her illness—quite fit. It wasn’t until Arnold, a freelance science writer and author of the book “Decoding Anorexia: How Breakthroughs in Science Offer Hope for Eating Disorders,” learned about research exploring the genetics ...
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