Word: nervosa
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YOUNG women in America are beset by what might be considered a plague. According to medical estimates, as many as 20 percent of female adolescents suffer from the eating disorders of anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa. But "eating disorders" is a misnomer; these conditions are actually psychological disorders finding physical manifestations...
...Over 99 percent of people with anorexia nervosa or bulimia are women--many of them intelligent, creative, and driven to succeed," said Cope Cumpston '72, a former bulimic...
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...