Word: anorexia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...female student, who has recently overcome a combination of bulimia and anorexia, described an overpowering need for some control over her life...
Clinical manuals characterize anorexia nervosa as "a phobic avoidance of food" in the presence of a loss of about 15 percent of one's body weight. Bulimia, on the other hand, is associated with the cycle of uncontrolled eating ("binging") and subsequent ridding of the body of unwanted food ("purging...
...Controlling means complete lack of control," the same student says. "With bulimia, when you try to control, you basically set yourself up for a binge. And with anorexia you're not in control of anything either...You can't think clearly because you're at such a low weight...
...bulimia appears to be more common than anorexia nowadays, Heatherton says. He attributes the rise in bulimia cases to the difficulty of sustaining the extreme dieting habits of anorexia...
Some of the highlights of the festival include Sittin' Pretty, about a babysitter who kills the baby and bakes him in a pie; Bulimiator, in which Arnold meets anorexia; Dogpile, about--well, the title is self-explanatory, and the eye-catching T-shirts are everywhere; and Deep Sympathy, the grand finale, featuring murder, necrophilia, maggots and mutilation...