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...Bulimia is much more common than anorexia, but it is very difficult to get reliable statistics," according to Dr. Margaret S. McKenna '70, a psychiatrist at UHS. In medical literature, many surveys of college age women have yielded a wide range of results: from 2 to 25 percent of the female college age population have eating disorders McKenna says...
Women's self-esteem gets wrapped up in body shape. "There's an equation: if I don't have a nice body, I'm not worth anything. This seems to be a pervasive attitude. Many charming, attractive, lovely young women come in thinking they're `gross,'" says McKenna...
...issue is self-perception, says McKenna. "Plenty of people may tell them they look great, but they don't believe it." she says. "And these are extremely successful people...
...difficult to classify who is most vulnerable to an eating disorder, says McKenna. "One type of person who is commonly described as a stereotype is the controlled perfectionist, the highly successful and driven individual," she says...
Attempts to cure bulimics and anorexics take different routes because of the difference in attitude about their behavior, according to McKenna. While bulimics tend to feel guilty about their behavior, anorexics don't see it as abnormal...