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When parents worry about transmitting eating disorder behaviors

I teach my kids about healthy eating while secretly weighing myself three times a day and I'm terrified I'm going to pass this sickness to them.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The desire to protect the next generation from inherited suffering creates its own form of anxious vigilance.

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