Word: anorexia
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Martins boasts that there are "no drugs, no anorexia here. I'm not interested in unhealthy, skinny dancers." Sometimes he sounds like Mr. B. when he talks about wanting performers whose "purpose in life is clear-cut and strong." For himself, he sighs a little. "My life is one big 'being around.' Rehearsing, fund raising, administering a $21.5 million budget. I don't like the fact that I've aged ten years in two, that I have no private life. But I believe in all this." He pauses and adds, "I guess I've decided to spend my life here...
...such vulnerable groups are children and people who are predisposed to developing eating disorders. The incidence of anorexia nervosa has risen steeply in the last 15 years, an increase partly attributable to our increasing cultural emphasis upon slimness. Children are swayed by the obsession with weight: a survey showed that half of fourth grade girls say they diet, and 75 percent of them feel they are too heavy and are terrified of gaining weight...
...social experience which unifies them, much in the way the Black experience unifies Blacks. This assertion is supported by "hard" statistics relating to the connections between women and clinical depression, suicide, addictions, fear of success, low self-confidence and diseases that are almost exclusively female, such as bulimia and anorexia. Such afflictions are not congenital--they are learned. They are the demonstrable results of the female social experience, which is strikingly different from the male social experience...
Eating Problems Outreach (EPO) handles anonymous calls from students suffering from anorexia nervosa, bulimia and other eating disorders. Those with anorexia, which has been recognized since the Middle Ages, are preoccupied with dieting and lose at least 25 percent of their original body weight yet still see themselves as fat. Bulimia, only recently recognized as a disorder and more difficult to detect, involves a cycle of binging and self-induced purging...
...women and men with anorexia and bulimia are on physical roller coster rides. The physical repercussions can be deadly at times, though for bulimics the prognosis is usually brighter. Anorexics at various stages can experience a cessation of menstruation, insomnia, hypothermia, fatigue and depression. Bulimics suffer dehydration, internal bleeding, enlargement of salivary glands and severe loss of potassium which can lead to heart or kidney failure, says Honnet...