Word: normale
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After a year and a half of therapy she was back to her normal weight. At Harvard, she stopped going to therapy, but she still worries about eating and her weight. Sometimes she plays with her food without eating; other times she indulges in sweets and then is depressed for days because she went off her diet...
...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...
...bulimics: "Bulimics were more depressed, felt higher levels of stress, weighed more, were more perfectionistic, were likely to eat in response to stress, dieted more frequently, saw themselves as less self-accepting, thought thinness was more important, and were more ashamed of their eating habits than individuals with normal eating patterns," she says...
Jennifer C. Keeler '86 studied men and women on the lightweight and heavyweight crew teams as well as the basketball team for her senior thesis for the Psychology Department. While she found that men on both teams were more concerned about weight than normal, they did not have an excessive or dangerous preoccupation with weight. "In general, athletes tend to be pretty healthy," she says, though she adds she did find some individuals who had problems. "It's more of an individual thing or predisposition than something that is caused by a sport that has a weight restriction," she says...
Thirteen minutes after the explosion, Peterson landed his plane safely, to the cheers and applause of his passengers and crew. Though he later described the operation as a "normal emergency landing," Peterson admitted that he had been concerned in the last minutes of flight because "you wonder if you have your brakes and your hydraulic system." He continued, "Even though it shows on the instruments, you never know. That's why people clapped when we touched down. They were glad, as we were, to be on the ground." Among the 118 survivors, none needed to be told how lucky they...