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...anorexic patient's inability to see her body as it is has long fascinated researchers. While other manifestations of the illness (an obsession with weight and food, an intense fear of being fat) can be more readily traced to psychological distress, the anorexic's distorted perception of herself has suggested to many a biological abnormality - that something is amiss in the brain itself...
...Landline program that the point of the assistance is to help farmers "keep food on the table and to meet normal living expenses." Given the hardship in many parts of the bush, urban taxpayers can hardly be called heartless or stingy. In any case, it's a fat time for government revenue collection, so a helping hand is not causing general resentment. Not yet, anyway...
...weight had plunged from 55 kg to 32 kg. Racked by headaches and too weak to leave the house, she was often irrational yet also cunning in the ways she foiled her mother's attempts to make her eat. Because the girl she saw in the mirror still looked fat in the hips, thighs and stomach, she ignored her family's pleadings that she was skeletal. "I didn't believe them," she says. "That's not what I was seeing...
Mondraty and Sachdev, professor of neuropsychiatry at the University of New South Wales, saw the chance to make a small breakthrough in exploring why it is that the anorexic sees on her frame fat that isn't there. It's a puzzling, highly specific delusion: anorexic women can recognize normal weight in others and identify other anorexics as too thin, but something goes awry when they look at themselves...
...yacht, to flaunt," he says. Nor does the Prada-wearing class excite him as a marketing opportunity. China and India, with their growing ranks of tycoons, should attract multinational[an error occurred while processing this directive] businesses, not because of the spare million in a few fat wallets, he argues, but because of the spare change in a billion slim ones. "Everyone is catering to the top of the pyramid," says the 68-year-old at his office in Bombay House, Tata group's elegant Edwardian headquarters in India's business capital. "The challenge we've given...