Word: bulemia
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...After all, even the producers are alert to the fact that the most dramatic moments of the show will come when contestants indulge in melancholy, desperate eating binges, subsequently feel remorse and then frantically run around the jogging track until they vomit and cry. Hooray for anorexia! Cheers for bulemia! It's a morally bankrupt idea and it makes even a cynical bastard like me sort of queasy, but I'm also slightly intrigued by the possibilities of sabotage once the field is narrowed to two or three. Just think of the potential scenarios! Instead of Survivor-esque alliances...
...said she hopes to apply this restraint theory, formulated by Canadian researchers Janet Polivy and Peter Herman, to bulemia for the first time. Using other eating disorders as a model, Polivy and Herman postulated that after starving themselves, dieters experience a physchological state of deprivation and an increased amount of tension, which expresses itself in binging...
...experimental group will include 30 subjects, who all have bulemia symptoms. Fox is currently interviewing perspective candidates from both Harvard and Tufts for this group...
...said that although "with proper treatment bulemia can be handled," she added that she is uncertain victims can maintain their success. The key to success, she said, is realizing that "the average American female was not meant to be a size three...
...Individual athletes associate with the coach, and some coaches don't get a grip on where eating disorders come from," says Costin, who sees bulemia and other eating disorders as part of a larger Harvard problem...