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Eating disorders in UK sport: ‘A general culture that weight loss is good’ – BBC News
Athletes tell BBC Panorama about their experiences of eating disorders in UK sport.
media captionThe British athletes battling eating disorders in sport
Rebecca Quinlan dreamed of becoming a professional runner when she was growing up.
As a teenager, she had already begun to restrict what she ate, believing it would improve her performance in local running championships. But her restrictive eating escalated when she started studying sport science at university.
She’s spoken out as part of
a BBC Panorama documentary about eating disorders in British sport, investigated by …
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