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Living with an eating disorder through lockdown

More than one million people in the UK suffer with eating disorders like anorexia, bulimia and binge eating. A leading charity has told The Nine that the number of people seeking help for eating disorders in Scotland has more than doubled. More than two thousand sought help from the charity, Beat, between February and July. With services shifted online for the moment, one dad has told the Nine that his daughter, who suffers from anorexia, went into a "downward spiral". The Nine's Hope Webb has this exclusive report.

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