Word: bulimia
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...condition differs from bulimia nervosa in that individuals do not participate in common purging techniques such as vomiting or the use of laxative after the binge episode...
Anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa have both been identified to have some sort of genetic tie. Skeptics have often posited that binge eating disorder might solely be a non-specific pattern of eating, thus suggesting no real difference between the obese with binge eating disorder and those without...
Since Lindsay Lohan’s recent Vanity Fair confessions of bulimia and cocaine use, I have felt a particular—and peculiar—duty to discuss my own reading period affliction with the public. Hopefully, my candor will help others cope with similar issues, and will help me reveal the true culprits behind my shameful disorder. I have intellectual bulimia. There. I said it, and I won’t retract it. I sit in Lamont or in Widener or in Ticknor, trying hopelessly to study for my four massive finals. I see my peers with eyes...
...going to hurt me, right? So I clicked on the piece, only to find that it was actually about Lindsay Lohan, the comely American teen star of Mean Girls. Lohan has told Vanity Fair that she had used drugs "a little," did a two-week hospital stint, and battled bulimia: "I was making myself sick." Lohan, who wrote a song in a Paris hotel room about her struggles, clearly believes in the power of confession, calling it "a therapy." Funny - Kennedy had said the same thing at his tell-all press conference: "[T]his admission today comes as something...
...same time, however, Oxnam's private life was falling apart. He suffered from alcoholism and bulimia and flew into frequent, irrational rages. Several nights a week, as he admits in his courageous new memoir, A Fractured Mind (Hyperion; 285 pages), he performed what he calls his addiction ritual. "It required," he writes, "two packs of cigarettes, Polish sausage, a gallon of ice cream, a two-pound bag of peanuts, a bottle of scotch, and a pornographic movie...