Word: fatted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Annette had anorexia nervosa in high school. At one point she weighed 97 pounds. She remembers that she couldn't admit that she had a problem, that she would look in the mirror and see herself as fat, even after losing 30 pounds. Her mother finally forced her to see a doctor...
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...
...Anorexics' cognitive functioning is affected. They can no longer tell what they really look like. There are 80 pound women in the hospital who are angry when they are force-fed; they think people are forcing them to get fat," says Honnet...
...Nashville these days, citizens skip discussions of the weather to ask, "Are you rotating?" Music City, U.S.A., turning on to the latest pop dance fad? Not quite. Instead, Nashville has embraced the newest fat fighters' miracle: the rotation diet. Local restaurants are featuring meals from the plan's menu; grocery stores are posting signs touting approved fruits, vegetables and other foods. So popular has the plan become that an estimated 70,000 residents, about 10% of the city's population, are now rotating feverishly, caught up in a mad whirl to "Melt-a-Million" pounds collectively by mid-May. They...
...sluggin back the brews right and my fat roommates killin me tonite and he tells me the guy who wrote the story is mad because he thinks athletes get special attention at Byerly Hall. Hey that's great, I think, because I never knew that Byerly Hall was an athletic facility. Hey we can go their and work out because they'll treat us real good and give us special attention...