- 19% or more of college aged women in America are bulimic. (Rader Programs)
- As many as 10% of college women suffer from a clinical or nearly clinical eating disorder, including 5.1% who suffer from bulimia nervosa.
- 25% of college-aged women binge purge to manage their weight.
- 91% of women surveyed on a college campus had at one point dieted to control their weight. 22% of them were dieting often or always. (Kurth et al., 1995)
- Studies indicate that by their first year of college, 4.5 to 18% of women and 0.4% of men have a history of bulimia and that as many as 1% of females between the ages of 12 and 18 have anorexia. (The National Center for Health Statistics)
With treatment, about 60% of people with eating disorders recover. In spite of treatment, about 20% of people with eating disorders make only partial recoveries. The remaining 20% do not improve, even with treatment. (ANRED)
