Word: bulimias
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...Anorexia and bulimia are not diseases. If labeled as such people think they can take pills or something to get rid of it. I call it a 'coping strategy gone awry.' It's a combination of the psychological and the physical," says Honnet, who is also an assistant psychologist at University Health Services dealing with eating disorders...
...Bulimia is much more common than anorexia, but it is very difficult to get reliable statistics," according to Dr. Margaret S. McKenna '70, a psychiatrist at UHS. In medical literature, many surveys of college age women have yielded a wide range of results: from 2 to 25 percent of the female college age population have eating disorders McKenna says...
According to a 1982 and 1983 Radcliffe survey that stringently defined bulimia as binging once a week, between 4 and 8 percent of the 400 women and less than 1 percent of the 200 men surveyed at Harvard and another Boston area college could be classified as having bulimia, says Norma C. Ware, assistant dean of Radcliffe...
...results of our survey corresponded to the results of surveys [that used comparable definitions of bulimia] done in other parts of the country on other college campuses," Ware says...
...conclusion is that bulimia has increased, but it is not nearly as prevalent as has been widely believed. At the same time, there are many individuals who have bulimic-like syndromes that don't fit all the stringent requirements of the operational definition," Ware says. "The same would be true for anorexia," she added...