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Learning about Anorexia, Health Channel

Dr. Paula Levine, Psychologist and Founding Director of the Miami Counseling Resource Center, says anorexia is very complex, and there is choice involved and a pursuit of thinness.

“Severe anorexia is by choice. We don’t get born on the way to anorexia, even though there is a genetic component,” she points out.

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