Word: anorexia
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Various eating disorders, including anorexia and bulimia, plague one-fifth of college women nationwide, Wilson said...
...masked the fact that the book does expose some embarrassing exaggerations in feminist literature, along with much p.c. silliness on the part of Sommers' academic feminist colleagues. Most strikingly, it debunks author Naomi Wolf's assertion that 150,000 American women die each year in a "holocaust" of anorexia; the number is closer to 100. Similarly, Sommers claims that feminists exaggerate the extent of rape, wife battering and discrimination against girls in the classroom. She criticizes a much publicized study finding that girls' self-esteem plunges at puberty. For one thing, the same study finds that black girls have much...
...truth was almost beyond our comprehension. Aaron was suffering from anorexia nervosa...
...disease that has gradually been acknowledged in American society. After almost two decades of books and magazine articles and TV talk shows, people are aware now that eating disorders exist. They vary from cyclical pattern of binging and purging (bulimia), to the rapid loss of body weight (anorexia), to eating when depressed or to relieve stress (compulsive eating...
...eating disorders in women were only picked up on in the mainstream media in the last 20 year. Historically, the first well-documented case of anorexia nervosawas a 16-year-old male in 1694, Reports were published in the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries describing self-starvation in adolescent males...