It’s estimated up to 20 million women and one million men in the U.S. are afflicted with eating disorders. 21-year-old Heather is a psychology major at Florida Gulf Coast University. She’s an after-school counselor and a cheerleading coach. But Heather has anorexia. And this spring she spent two months in Arizona – at one of the country’s foremost treatment centers for women with anorexia. There, she was required to write about the disease.
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Tonight at 7 The Southwest Florida Community Foundation holds an eating disorders forum for school counselors, nurses, health instructors, coaches and the public at Harborside Convention Center in downtown Fort Myers.