Over a period of 15 years a young woman named Anne Dodge saw doctor after doctor in a quest to overcome what was consistently diagnosed as an eating disorder. Following meals she experienced nausea and intense stomach pain, and sometimes she vomited. Nothing seemed to help—not therapy, not antidepressants, and certainly not the 3,000-calorie-a-day diet her internist prescribed. Her weight dropped to 82 pounds, and she was in danger of starving to death.
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