Word: bulimia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Advisers to the Food and Drug Administration have declared Prozac safe and effective in the treatment of bulimia...
...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...
Jane (real name withheld) is a LWF who goes on at great length about "the beauty myth." Of course she's probably never read the book of that title. Nevertheless, she complains about how society's standards of beauty drive women to anorexia and bulimia, and how they objectify women...
...solve the problem. Perhaps Mr. Cucci is unaware of just how many college students, mostly women, spend time worrying about their weight. According to a recent study, as many as 30 percent of women in college and graduate school show symptoms of an eating disorder like anorexia nervosa or bulimia. Many of these women would fall into the category of those whom the author feels could use "some toning or trimming...
...suddenly allergic to the cameras that follow her everywhere. "You make my life hell," she yelled at a photographer who ambushed her outside a London movie theater. She spent more and more nights alone at Kensington Palace, watching TV. There were reports that she was once again suffering from bulimia. Last month she left a royal charity gala in tears: "a migraine" was the official explanation...