Latina Lista: Young Latinas at high risk for eating disorders

“Latina girls, along with Caucasian girls, are the two highest groups to experience eating disorders according to a 2005 research study titled Eating disorder and depressive symptoms in urban high school girls from different ethnic backgrounds.

Whether we like it or not, young Latinas are like those peers in search of what they think is the perfect body.”

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