Word: bulimia
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...speaking of ancient Rome, Super Bowl weekend may be the optimal moment to reflect on the true reason for that empire's fall--which, it could be argued, was not decadence, Christianity or post-orgy bulimia but rampant sports mania. At the height of the empire, the stadium was the centerpiece of every Roman town, dwarfing mere housing and temples. Loyalty to the chariot-racing leagues, with their colorful banners, eclipsed all political passions. When the barbarians attacked the gates of the Roman city of Hippo, no one much noticed because the groans of the dying soldiers on the wall...
...similar impulse on his way to St. Paul's Cathedral in 1981? ("The hell with it, I just can't go through with this!") What if he had left Diana at that altar? No wedding, therefore no years of misery? On the other hand, no Wills and Harry? No bulimia, no "New" Diana? No Dodi? No paparazzi? No crash...
...Fahey had reason to want to move on. According to friends, she had finally found happiness with a man her age, bank executive Mike Scanlan, now 33, whom she met through Carper. She had begun daydreaming about bridesmaid dresses and had got a grip on a long struggle with bulimia (the 5-ft. 10-in. Fahey reportedly once dropped...
...nearly a half-century, only in recent years have neuroscientists begun to understand how important this one substance is to the functioning of the human psyche. Serotonin, or the lack of it, has been implicated not only in depression, uncontrollable appetite and obsessive-compulsive disorder but also in autism, bulimia, social phobias, premenstrual syndrome, anxiety and panic, migraines, schizophrenia and even extreme violence...
Anxiety disorders, on the other hand, probably reflect serotonin deficits in the amygdala, the part of the brain that processes fear and other emotions. For depression, bulimia, obesity and the rest of the serotonin-related disorders, however, no one knows for sure what part of the brain is involved or exactly why the drugs work. "There is," says Hyman, "a bit of mystery here...