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Read more: https://www.thecut.com/article/how-bulimia-became-a-medical-diagnosis.html
TIL that bulimia is socially contagious. Fiji had never had a report of anyone with an eating disorder, but within three years after television was introduced in 1995, a study found 11% of Fiji’s adolescent girls had purged their food at least once. By 2007, it was 45%.
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Fiji got television in 1992? that’s the real TIL for me.
They just didn’t realize they were fat.
It’s good to talk
So are masochism, anorexia and gender dysphoria. Same pattern, same demographics.