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Carrie Arnold

Carrie Arnold is a freelance science writer who is also in recovery from anorexia. She has written two previous books on her decade-plus battle with anorexia: Running on Empty: A Diary of Anorexia and Recovery and Next to Nothing: A Firsthand Account of One Teenager's Experience With an Eating Disorder. She has degrees from the University of Michigan and Johns Hopkins University in public health and science writing. Carrie is a regular contributor to the Washington Post, Scientific American, Scientific American Mind, Self, and Psychology Today. She is also a member of the National Association of Science Writers, the National Eating Disorders Association, and the Academy for Eating Disorders. She is currently at work on her third book, to be published by Routledge in 2012: Decoding Anorexia: How Science Offers Hope for Eating Disorders. For more information, visit her websites at www.edbites.com and www.carriearnold.com.

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