Diversification continues to change the landscape of therapeutic practice for the treatment of eating disorders, and challenges myths that the illness primarily afflicts upper middle-class college-age White women driven toward American images of slenderness (Gordon, Perez, & Joiner, 2002). However, researchers have more recently begun to explore eating disorder etiology amongst ethnic groups, and are increasingly aware that women from non-western origins including Latin and African cultures suffer (Gordon, 2001), as well as from such places as
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