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They're called pro-eating disorder Web sites. And many teens looking
to lose weight -- even those who don't need to -- are logging on to
these communities of individuals who engage in dangerous eating habits.
Yet many parents aren't aware the sites even exist and that their children are visiting them, researchers have found. "Most parents would not endorse their child leaving the house at night, walking to an area of town that they themselves had never been in and meeting people that they themselves had never met," said study author Dr. Rebecka Peebles, an instructor in adolescent medicine at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford University School of Medicine. "And I think that's actually what a lot of kids are doing online at home from their bedrooms."
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