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  Children With Eating Disorders Thursday 17 April 2003  
Recent research at the University of Leeds has shown that children as young as nine are going on diets after being teased about their weight.

There's been a lot of debate in the media about overweight children, but is enough attention being paid to the growing problem of eating disorders in young children?
Andrew Hill, a psychologist at Leeds University who specialises in eating disorders and Pam, a recovering anorexic who developed the illness from the age of 8, join Jenni to discuss.
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