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...would like to clarify some points addressed in Katherine M. Peterson's article, "Harvard Joins Fight Against Bulimia (11/28/83). We formed Eating Problems Outreach, a student organization, because we are convinced that the issue of eating disorders needs to be further addressed on campus. The issue of eating disorders is not one of "us" (those who suffer or have suffered from eating disorders) and "them" (those who are "well"). We are all members of a culture that associates women's physical appearance with their value as human beings. None of us can remain entirely unaffected by these destructive values...
Elizabeth D. Babcock, head of the Clinics Managers Office at Harvard's University Health Service, said that Bulimia is a "major problem" at Harvard as well, but she estimates that it is "not nearly as serious as the survey suggests U. Penn's problem...
...Bulimia, like the closely related condition Anorexia nervosa, often strike women who are intelligent, achievement oriented and from upper middle class, seemingly perfect, families. The Ivy League in general probably has more than a normal share of Bulimics and Anorexics," he said...
Katlin explained that this is because "Bulimia serves as an outlet for the underlying cause of the condition--depression, adding, "a student can thus appear perfectly normal but retain a great underlying feeling of depression which might otherwise be revealed in some other...
Still, he added, the road to recovery can be especially painful because Bulimia represents the tip of the iceberg. "Before a person recovers from Bulimia, she must work out sometimes quite complex psychological problems," he said...