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Psychiatrist Ann Kearney-Cooke has been treating eating disorders for 23 years. About 10 years ago, the therapist, who is based in Cincinnati, Ohio, began to notice a disturbing new trend: the average age of her patients kept getting older. "We traditionally think of anorexia and bulimia as affecting those of college or high school age, and that was the case 20 years ago," she says. "Now about half my patients are women in midlife...
Donna Smith, 41, of Springfield, Pa., acknowledges that her eating disorder sprang from a need to rein in her sometimes out-of-control life. Smith, a bookkeeper and part-time yoga instructor, had struggled with bulimia as a teenager and resorted to it occasionally as an adult. But the disorder returned with a vengeance three years ago when her estranged father resurfaced after a 20-year absence, then died. Smith coped by resuming her old self-destructive ways. By the summer of 2003, she carried less than 100 lbs. on her 5-ft. 3-in. frame. Only after...
That's certainly true of Karen, 47, a human-resources manager in Los Angeles who developed serious bulimia after her husband died in 1991. Karen, who prefers not to reveal her full name, admits she has never had a healthy relationship with food and that, as a new widow, she found herself going on binges that lasted days, followed by days and even weeks of fasting. It took her years to get help. She looked for a program in which others could identify with her issues of loss and aging. This summer she turned to San Diego's Puente...
...because patients are secretive but also because doctors are oblivious. "Some doctors have a stereotype of who develops an eating disorder," says Cindy Bulik, director of the eating-disorders program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. "I know patients whose doctors said, 'You can't have bulimia. That's a young white woman's disease.'" The tendency to overlook the disorder is exacerbated by the fact that many mature patients can't be neatly classified as anorexic or bulimic. Most older patients at Remuda Ranch are classified as EDNOS, eating disorders not otherwise specified, says Dr. Edward...
...their hair, 30 minutes on makeup. Kelsie, however, says she watches not only her hair and makeup but also her junk-food intake. Sponsors say that gaining weight, especially during pizza pig-outs at overnight competitions, is a more common problem for 13-year-olds than eating disorders like bulimia, which can become a serious issue for cheerleaders in high school...