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Should the government do more to ban 'pro-anorexia' websites?

It's been estimated that over seven hundred thousand people are affected by eating disorders in the UK, which can devastate the lives of sufferers and their families.

What's worrying some campaigners is a new trend of websites which glamorise the condition and offer advice such as how to hide the illness from families.

The writer and broadcaster Emma Woolf, who herself suffered from anorexia, thinks the government should now intervene to ban these sites.

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