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...Honnet says that the number of students coming to Harvard who either have eating disorders or develop them is increasing. "The incidence at Harvard parallels incidences in the population as a whole," she says. Indeed recent studies found that 75 percent of the fourth grade girls in a San Francisco school were dieting. Other studies indicate that even if the number of people with outright disorders is not increasing dramatically, the number of people on diets who weigh a normal amount is large and growing...
...deadly at times, though for bulimics the prognosis is usually brighter. Anorexics at various stages can experience a cessation of menstruation, insomnia, hypothermia, fatigue and depression. Bulimics suffer dehydration, internal bleeding, enlargement of salivary glands and severe loss of potassium which can lead to heart or kidney failure, says Honnet...
...they might feel they've ruined the day; they might as well eat more; it won't matter. It's a painful cycle to be in. Women feel compelled. It's a kind of veil coming down over them. They feel like they can't break the cycle," says Honnet...
Women comprise between 90 to 95 percent of all people with eating disorders, according to experts. A sociocultural view explaining the increase looks at the increasing importance placed on the body for finding social acceptance, according to Honnet...
...people to be thin and exercise a lot, be successful and perfect, all as a package deal. There's also the suggestion that we can still eat what we want [and maintain this image]. There's no woman who isn't affected [in some way by this pressure]," says Honnet...