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Drunkorexia - New Weight Loss Plan

By Hank Campbell in Science 2.0
August 16, 2016

Like other claims about binge diets, if this becomes a thing, someone out there will try to claim there is a biological mechanism. But unless it is a gene only in middle class white women it probably won't get a lot of traction.
http://www.euractiv.com/section/health-consumers/news/report-drunkorexia...

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