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Eating disorders and pro-ana websites

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Eating disorders and pro-ana websites

A celebration of thinness is promoted through certain pro-ana websites, and the current fixation on celebrity culture is partly to blame.

Marjorie Wallace joins a discussion on The Sharon Osbourne Show in 2006.

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