If you were anorexic as a child, what are the chances of your own child developing it (at any time in her life) Even if you do your best to make sure she doesn't?
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Anorexia has not been proven to be genetic. Unfortunately, many of the anxieties, fears, and social ideas that person adopted that contributed to their former eating disorder are still very much a part of who they are, and can often be communicated to other people. Does this person still obsess over the way airbrushed half-dead models look in the stack of magazines they subscribe to? Are they deathly afraid of cheeseburgers and whole milk? Do that make frequent comments about the way their child looks, and not many comments about their character. Are they a frequent dieter (even if the diets themselves are fairly safe), and do they hold the pursuit of a smaller dress size with the same importance that a parched man in the desert would hold the pursuit for a drink of water? As long as a person has truly moved on, and abolished not only the anorexia, but also the toxic ideas and frame of mind that contributed to it, the chances of passing it on are pretty nil.
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