Word: bulimias
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Researchers may have found a biological explanation for bulimia. Those who suffer from the eating disorder -- which involves compulsive bingeing, followed by forced vomiting -- have low levels of the brain chemical serotonin; the discovery may point the way toward treatment...
...merely rhetorical, means. Even Janine Antoni's sculptures -- a big cube of chocolate gnawed by the artist and a fairly repulsive mound of lard chewed up by her, flanked by a vitrine or mock reliquary displaying chocolate cases and lipsticks made from the residue of both (link between bulimia and beauty cult, get it?) -- have a sort of Monty Pythonish looniness that makes them almost endearing as traces of obsessive effort...
...Bulimia is more prevalent than anorexia on college campuses simply because anorexia occurs more commonly at high school age, Hall says...
...Controlling means complete lack of control," the same student says. "With bulimia, when you try to control, you basically set yourself up for a binge. And with anorexia you're not in control of anything either...You can't think clearly because you're at such a low weight...
...bulimia appears to be more common than anorexia nowadays, Heatherton says. He attributes the rise in bulimia cases to the difficulty of sustaining the extreme dieting habits of anorexia...