Word: fox
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Fox said she hopes to apply this restraint theory, formulated by Canadian researchers Janet Polivy and Peter Herman, to bulemia for the first time. Using other eating disorders as a model, Polivy and Herman postulated that after starving themselves, dieters experience a physchological state of deprivation and an increased amount of tension, which expresses itself in binging...
...project, which began about a month ago, stems from Fox's interest in eating disorders, which she has treated in Boston women for the past 12 years...
...particular understanding of the problem is that culture puts enormous pressure on females to be thin," said Fox. "Before a size 14 was acceptable--now it's too plump," she added...
...Fox has just completed the first phase of her research, interviewing a control group of 40 females about their normal eating habits. Most of the members of the control group are Tufts students who receive extra credit in their psychology course at the university...
...experimental group will include 30 subjects, who all have bulemia symptoms. Fox is currently interviewing perspective candidates from both Harvard and Tufts for this group...