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* About 25,000 people die every day of hunger or hunger-related causes, according to the United Nations. This is one person every three and a half seconds, as you can see on this display. Unfortunately, it is children who die most often. * Today 10% of children in developing countries die before the age of five. This is down from 28% fifty years ago. * It is estimated that some 800 million people in the world suffer from hunger and malnutrition, about 100 times as many as those who actually die from it each year. _____________________________________________________________________ * It is estimated that 3 % of women will be affected by eating disorders during their lifetime * Research suggests that about one percent (1%) of female adolescents have anorexia * Many surveys indicate that only about 10% of people with anorexia and bulimia are male. _____________________________________________________________________ * In media representations of female adolescent body weight, slimness is assumed to be...


