Word: anorexia
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Annette had anorexia nervosa in high school. At one point she weighed 97 pounds. She remembers that she couldn't admit that she had a problem, that she would look in the mirror and see herself as fat, even after losing 30 pounds. Her mother finally forced her to see a doctor...
...friends exceptions, unusually insecure women? I don't think so. Too many women at Harvard and throughout the U.S. have battled with some eating disorder--bulimia, anorexia, crash diets, starvation...
...classic, ancient sense." Charles is drawn to asceticism: he apparently fasts occasionally and rarely eats red meat. He shies away from being called a vegetarian, maintaining that he simply prefers fish and fowl. Diana, who also eschews meat, attributes her imperial slimness (which some palace watchers have whispered was anorexia) to the fact that at public functions "it's impossible to talk and eat at the same time...
With the release of a Radcliffe study last year that showed seven percent of Harvard women to have some kind of eating disorder and the founding of a student support group for these disorders, the problems of anorexia and bulemia are being recognized at Harvard. And its effects on those women who have the most reason to be concerned with their health, athletes, are similarly beginning to receive attention from coaches and the Athletic Department...
...concerns include the problems of bulimia and anorexia nervosa. In addition, we wish to address the more common concerns of women regarding body size, weight, and diet. We regard these problems as a logical outgrowth of a culture that makes obsessive and unrealistic demands of thinness on women...