What to say - and not to say - to someone with a suspected eating disorder

Psychologists note that it is important for the loved ones of those with an eating disorder to be patient with them. PHOTO: ISTOCKPHOTO
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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.

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