Word: bulimias
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...Nancy (Jennifer Harris) liberates herself from housewifehood by taking on a job as a pancake flipper at the neighborhood IHOP. Young Benjamin Goldstein (Alfred Naddaff) finds solace in the ways of the Hare Krishna, and his sister Melissa, played brilliantly by Lucy Soutter, pukes her way into heavy-duty bulimia. This is the disparate stuff workshop pieces are made...
...different social experience which unifies them, much in the way the Black experience unifies Blacks. This assertion is supported by "hard" statistics relating to the connections between women and clinical depression, suicide, addictions, fear of success, low self-confidence and diseases that are almost exclusively female, such as bulimia and anorexia. Such afflictions are not congenital--they are learned. They are the demonstrable results of the female social experience, which is strikingly different from the male social experience...
Eating Problems Outreach (EPO) handles anonymous calls from students suffering from anorexia nervosa, bulimia and other eating disorders. Those with anorexia, which has been recognized since the Middle Ages, are preoccupied with dieting and lose at least 25 percent of their original body weight yet still see themselves as fat. Bulimia, only recently recognized as a disorder and more difficult to detect, involves a cycle of binging and self-induced purging...
According to a 1982 and 1983 Radcliffe survey that strictly defined bulimia as purging once a week, between 4 and 8 percent of the 400 women and fewer than 1 percent of the 200 men surveyed at Harvard and another Boston-area college could be classified as having bulimia, according to Norma C. Ware, assistant dean of Radcliffe. These findings are consistent with other surveys conducted nationwide...
...women and men with anorexia and bulimia are on physical roller coster rides. The physical repercussions can be deadly at times, though for bulimics the prognosis is usually brighter. Anorexics at various stages can experience a cessation of menstruation, insomnia, hypothermia, fatigue and depression. Bulimics suffer dehydration, internal bleeding, enlargement of salivary glands and severe loss of potassium which can lead to heart or kidney failure, says Honnet...