Imagine that you know that both of these women are afraid of getting fat and believe themselves to be overweight. If you had to guess based on their appearance, which of these models would you think didn’t meet all the criteria for anorexia nervosa and instead had a partial case? The woman on the right is more likely to have a partial case because, based on these photos, she does not appear to be significantly underweight.
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