Word: bulimias
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Jenny is not a Harvard student, but she is typical of the many women at Harvard who have bulimia, says Ellen Porter Honnet, assistant dean of the college for co-education. Annette is a real student. And people, men and women, like them are a growing population at Harvard. Bulimia and anorexia have not struck Cambridge in epidemic proportions, but the eating disorders on campus can't be ignored either...
Anorexia has been recognized since the Middle Ages, while bulimia, Jenny's problem, has only been recognized for a decade. Anorexics have an intense preoccupation with dieting and lose at least 25 percent of their original body weight but still see themselves as fat. Bulimics are more difficult to diagnose because they binge and then purge, not greatly affecting body weight. The most difficult type of eating disorder to diagnose is the irregular eating habit. Large numbers of students pursue very unhealthy eating patterns, going on crash diets, eating unbalanced meals, binging on sweets...
...friends exceptions, unusually insecure women? I don't think so. Too many women at Harvard and throughout the U.S. have battled with some eating disorder--bulimia, anorexia, crash diets, starvation...
Many more women than men are bulimics, said Dr. Warren E. C. Wacker, the director of University Health Services, adding that 8 percent of Harvard women fall into this category. Bulimia is an eating disorder where people eat large amounts of food in a short period of time and then intentionally vomit...
...concerns include the problems of bulimia and anorexia nervosa. In addition, we wish to address the more common concerns of women regarding body size, weight, and diet. We regard these problems as a logical outgrowth of a culture that makes obsessive and unrealistic demands of thinness on women...