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