“One of the first patients that I took care of as a student was a 16-year-old male wrestler, who had actually been struggling for years with an eating disorder before anyone recognized it as an eating disorder. By the time that we saw him, he was obsessed with his weight. He was checking his weight 10 times a day. He was working out for seven hours a day, and he would only eat protein supplements, nothing else.”
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