It's pretty fundamental. NIED needs to get funding in order to compile this data, because when people die of an eating disorder, it's not registered that they died of an eating disorder. It's heart failure, or liver failure, or whatever, so we don't know how many people.... We know it's a lot of people, but we don't know how many people actually have eating disorders, do we?
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