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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Nationally, bulimia occurs in five percent of college-aged women, and more than 90 percent of bulimic patients are female, according to the New York-based American Anorexia/Bulimia Association...

Author: By Rebecca M. Wand, | Title: At Harvard, Eating Disorders Common | 11/4/1994 | See Source »

...Lena, bulimia began in high school, when she started dieting even though she was "very, very thin...

Author: By Rebecca M. Wand, | Title: At Harvard, Eating Disorders Common | 11/4/1994 | See Source »

Anorexia is the other common clinical eating disorder, though it is not so prevalent among college-aged students as bulimia. While bulimic behavior commonly begins in the late teens or twenties, anorexia usually sets in earlier, at ages...

Author: By Rebecca M. Wand, | Title: At Harvard, Eating Disorders Common | 11/4/1994 | See Source »

...percent of teenage girls nationwide develop anorexia, and as many as 10 percent may die from the disorder, according to the American Anorexia / Bulimia Association...

Author: By Rebecca M. Wand, | Title: At Harvard, Eating Disorders Common | 11/4/1994 | See Source »

...People feel guilty about what they're eating. The next level down [from anorexia and bulimia] would be nice to address: why the general population of women on this campus is not happy about the way they look, why people feel pressure to always be a little thinner, a few pounds lighter," she says. "It's a major problem--most women carry around this little cloud...

Author: By Rebecca M. Wand, | Title: At Harvard, Eating Disorders Common | 11/4/1994 | See Source »

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