Word: nervosa
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There is literature in the room, papers and pamphlets for the counselors and visitors to read. It tells of the physical dangers of Bulimiarexia, binge eating often followed by purging through laxatives or self-induced vomiting, and Anorexia Nervosa, willful self-starvation...
...this a Saturday Night Live sketch? An ad for the Beef Industry Council? No, it's The Karen Carpenter Story, a TV movie about the life and 1983 death (from heart failure linked to anorexia nervosa) of the creamy-voiced pop singer. The CBS film is a fitting New Year's Day kickoff for a genre that has run rampant in the past year: the TV docudrama. Virtually every headline- grabbing news story, from mass-murder spree to airline hijacking, is being processed and spun out as "fact-based drama." One can almost feel the hot breath of Hollywood waiting...
...such vulnerable groups are children and people who are predisposed to developing eating disorders. The incidence of anorexia nervosa has risen steeply in the last 15 years, an increase partly attributable to our increasing cultural emphasis upon slimness. Children are swayed by the obsession with weight: a survey showed that half of fourth grade girls say they diet, and 75 percent of them feel they are too heavy and are terrified of gaining weight...
Eating Problems Outreach (EPO) handles anonymous calls from students suffering from anorexia nervosa, bulimia and other eating disorders. Those with anorexia, which has been recognized since the Middle Ages, are preoccupied with dieting and lose at least 25 percent of their original body weight yet still see themselves as fat. Bulimia, only recently recognized as a disorder and more difficult to detect, involves a cycle of binging and self-induced purging...
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...