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Weight-loss obsession: How one man overcame a dangerous drive to over diet
In TODAY’s series Compelling Compulsions, we’re talking a look at eating disorders. They’re often associated with being a problem that impacts girls and women, but we speak to Beau Jacobson a young man from Fort Worth, Texas whose obsession with counting calories and losing weight drove him to cut his body weight in half, threatening his health. NBC’s Craig Melvin reports for TODAY.