Statistics

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 * "In a recent study, 27% of Ontario girls 12-18 years old were reported to be engaged in severely problematic food and weight behaviour."
 * "The death rate for eating disorders is high: it ranges between 18% (in 20-year studies) and 20% (in 30-year follow-up studies). In fact, the annual death rate associated with anorexia is more than //12 times higher// than the annual death rate due to //all// other causes combined for females between 15 and 24 years old."
 * The American Psychiatric Association Work Group on Eating Disorders estimates that some 8% of women suffer from either anorexia nervosa or bulimia nervosa
 * Eating disorders are now the third most common chronic illness in adolescent girls.
 * The death rate associated with anorexia nervosa alone is more than 12 times higher than the overall death rate among young women in the general population.
 * It is estimated that 3% of women will be affected by eating disorders in their lifetime.
 * Among female athletes, the prevalence of eating disorders is reported to be between 15% and 62%.
 * 37% of Canadian females age 11, 42% of Canadian females age 13 and 48% of Canadian females age 15 say they need to lose weight.
 * 47% of Canadian females age 11, 58% of Canadian females age 13, and 55% of Canadian females age 15 say they would change how they look if they could.
 * 81% of 10-year-olds restrict eating (diet). At least 46% of 9-year-olds restricted eating.
 * The fear of being fat is so overwhelming that young girls have indicated in surveys that they are more afraid of becoming fat than they are of cancer, nuclear war or losing their parents.
 * Health Canada found that almost one in every two girls and almost one in every five boys of grade 10 either were on a diet or wanted to lose weight.
 * A survey of parents found that one in 10 would abort a child if they knew it had a genetic tendency to be fat.
 * 80%-90% of women dislike the size and shape of their bodies.
 * Of women between the ages of 24 and 54 who diet, 76% diet for cosmetic rather than health reasons.
 * Excess of $32 billion sales posted by diet industry
 * 95% of all dieters regain their lost weight within one to five years.
 * Several long-term follow-up studies have shown that the success rate of diets, over time, is dismal at best. In fact, it is estimated that approximately 95% of diets simply do not work over the long term.
 * Studies show that 90%-95% of individuals who diet are unsuccessful in the long term.