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Eating Disorders in Athletes

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There is more pressure to perform in sports than meets the eye. For former Olympic boxer and professional champion Danny O’Connor, high school wrestling, the Olympic Games, and professional boxing, all included extreme weight-cutting, starvation, dehydration, purging, even collapse. The sad part was that it was not only tolerated but normalized as preparation. Dan talked with Danny O’Connor, author of Weight Class: A Fighter’s Life-or-Death Battle with an Eating Disorder.

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