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...study is the first effort by an Ivy League college to measure the incidence of Bulimia--a psychological disorder afflicting men and women of all ages but most prevalent among females in the 18 to 25 age group...
Patients suffering from Bulimia, which was recognized as a disease by the American Psychiatric Society in 1980, go through periods of eating large amounts of food--sometimes as long as 10 hours--followed by vomiting or a purging their systems through laxative overdoses...
Like many victims of bulimia. Sally learned about laxative abuse through friends who used them, diuretics and diet pills to lose or maintain weight. "I saw laxatives as a way to lose weight easily and painlessly," Sally says. "On days when I took laxatives, I ate whatever I wanted in huge quantities--whatever looked good, and whatever fattening combination of foods I wanted, I would...
...only people who have eating disorders, Carni notes. Occasionally men who have become hooked on the binge-purge syndrome to make weight allowances for crew, boxing or wresting will seek her help. "It is extremely hard for men to seek counseling because there is such a stigma attached to bulimia," Carni says. "And everyone who comes to me thinks that their problem is the most bizarre and that they are the only people in the world with the disorder. I guess that men think they are the minority of the minority...
SUFFERERS OF anorexia and bulimia are not the only victims of eating disorders at Harvard. There is another malady, which Carni characterizes as "the least destructive of them all"--spitting chewed-up food into one's napkin...