Word: nervosa
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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...
...concerns include the problems of bulimia and anorexia nervosa. In addition, we wish to address the more common concerns of women regarding body size, weight, and diet. We regard these problems as a logical outgrowth of a culture that makes obsessive and unrealistic demands of thinness on women...
...Bulimia, like the closely related condition Anorexia nervosa, often strike women who are intelligent, achievement oriented and from upper middle class, seemingly perfect, families. The Ivy League in general probably has more than a normal share of Bulimics and Anorexics," he said...
DIED. Karen Carpenter, 32, dulcet-voiced singing half, opposite her pianist-arranger brother Richard, of the squeaky-clean Carpenters; of an apparent heart attack (she had suffered earlier from anorexia nervosa); in Downey, Calif. Since 1969, their ballads (Close to You, We've Only Just Begun) have sold 80 million records and tapes, won three Grammy Awards...