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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]And no, 10 years old is not too young to develop an eating disorder.  Many parent say their child started restricting that young but they didn't realize what was happening until a couple years later -- WATCH OUT is all I am saying.

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Please stop conflating being a vegetarian and having an eating disorder. The latter is a serious health problem, the former is, in most cases, a compassionate ethical choice.

It makes my blood boil when people talk as if going vegetarian is the start of anorexia or what have you. You sound very misinformed.[/quote]

Going vegetarian was one of the first "restrictions" in my ED (anorexia) because it was a socially acceptable one. I was 16. You also sound very misinformed about eating disorders. The ratio of girls who were Veg*n at my inpatient treatment facility was incredibly high. For that very reason, veg*nism was not allowed in the treatment center, no matter what. [/quote]

That sounds like a very bad centre, and one I would avoid.

For your information, a couple of years ago I had a very serious health problem (read: days away from death) which the doctors at the hospital tried to blame on me being a long time vegetarian translitioning to vegan, while it was actually a doctor screw-up, and I knew very well it was.

They were constantly on my neck to make me stop being a vegetarian, till the day I lost it and told them I would rather die than renege on my ethics. And I was not kidding. They found a way of sorting out the problem in a hurry after I told them that.

I'm sick and tired of lazy health professionals blaming health problems and eating disorders on the person's being a vegetarian or a vegan.[/quote]

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