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After finally facing up to his problem and entering an eating-disorders program, Baum now works-paradoxically-as a waiter in a restaurant and weighs 102 pounds.

The Pressure To Lose

But Kirschenbaum has been locked out of his office at Northwestern University since 1992, when he lost his job running an eating-disorders clinic at Northwestern Memorial Hospital.

Not Much Of An Honor

"" It's a fiasco for patients who have lost weight and improved their health, '' says Thomas Wadden, the psy-chologist who heads the University of Pennsylvania's weight and eating-disorders program.

After Fen-Phen

Dr. Cynthia Bulik, director of the eating-disorders program at the University of North Carolina and author of the book "Runaway Eating: The Eight-Point Plan to Conquer Adult Food and Weight Obsessions" (Rodale), says she thinks the film will raise questions about the illness, its treatment options and where to go for help.

'Unrealistic Weights'

Now 24, she has written a memoir, "One Life" Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2009, about her recovery from anorexia after treatment at the Florida branch of the Renfrew Center, the nationwide eating-disorders clinic.

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In 2007, when she was 14, Constance Barter was diagnosed with anorexia and admitted to a specialist eating-disorders unit.

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MacDonald says she is fully recovered, and she has taken her treatment a step further by making eating-disorders issues her life's work.

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