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What to say - and not to say - to someone with a suspected eating disorder
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Psychologists note that it is important for the loved ones of those with an eating disorder to be patient with them.
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Shannon Ling
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SINGAPORE - Ms Bernice Lee started having eating disorders at 14.
Now 21 and a freelancer in the music industry, she would keep her dietary intake to as low as 300 calories a day or vomit out what she had eaten.

