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This article is on a study about males with eating disorders. It is believed that eating disorders are more common in males than peoples realize. A study of 5,527 teenage males across the U.S. was performed by lead author Alison Field, ScD, of Boston Children's Hospital Adolescent Medicine Division along with others.The teenage males were evaluated through questionnaires by them responding to surveys every 12 to 36 months from 1999 to 2010. Field find that 17.9 % males were concerned about weight and physique that they started engaging in risky behaviors; including drug use and binge drinking. 9.2% concerned with muscularity, 2.5% concerned with thinness, and 6.3% concerned between the two. Therefore males concerned about muscularity, who uses unhealthy supplements growth hormone and steroids, were twice as likely to start binge drinking more than peers and start using drugs. Males concerned about thinness were more likely to develop depression symptoms.Which led to a total of 2.9% of all having full or partial criteria binge eating disorders and 1/3 of them reported binge eating, purging, or overeating. Which are some characteristics of bulimia nervosa. Moreover Clinicians believe that parents should be more aware of males eating disorders and focus on their weight and shape then of their daughters. However this study is based on a survey and need more data (Barrett's Law #3) and according to (textbook pg.296) only 10 to 15% males are bulimia.

References: Boston Children's Hospital. "Eating disorders more common in males than realized." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 4 November 2013. .

Alison E. Field. **Prospective Associations of Concerns About Physique and the Development of Obesity, Binge Drinking, and Drug Use Among Adolescent Boys and Young Adult Men**. //JAMA Pediatrics//, 2013; DOI: 10.1001/jamapediatrics.2013.2915

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