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World Service,25 Jul 1997,28 mins

Eating Disorders in Argentina

Everywoman

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In Argentina, one in 10 young women suffers from anorexia or bulimia. Why has it become such an epidemic? Also on the programme: The interfering aunts making one Ghanaian woman's life a misery. Plus, this week's diary comes from a Londoner visiting Pakistan for the first time, her family having fled the country in the 1940s during the partition massacres.

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