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Eating disorders effect thousands of young women in the United States and other parts of the world. The compulsions involved can be life destroying.

With anorexia, bulemia, and other eating disorders, therapy has been found to be effective. Studies have shown that medications routinely prescribed, Prozac being the most commonly prescribed medication for eating disorders, as well as other SSRIs, have about the same success ratio as placebos in treating eating disorders.

Cognitive therapy has been of help to many, as well as counseling on proper dieting and eating habits. One experience is given of a teenage tennis pro who developed anorexia, and it is said that a disproportionatly large number of female athletes suffer from eating disorders.

Medifast, Inc. (NYSE: MED) today announced that a recent study published in ‘The Journal of Eating and Weight Disorders’ shows that individuals taking appetite suppressant medications can expect double the weight loss when they combine their drug therapy with a medical protocol using Medifast Meal Replacement Supplements.

The 52-week study, conducted by researchers at the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine and Baylor College of Medicine shows that participants who consistently used Medifast Meal Replacements along with pharmacotherapy lost an average of 14% of their body weight in one year. This amount of weight loss is approximately double what is seen in university studies of obesity medications alone over the same time frame. In the study, more than 80% of the participants lost at least 5% of their body weight, which is more than double that found for other structured commercial weight loss programs.