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...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...
...Women tend to focus on their body as a way of gaining autonomy, says Mihelich. "It may be a way of breaking off from one's parents. The person may think 'only I control what I eat, you have nothing to do with what I put in my mouth.' It becomes a coping mechanism," 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...
Anorexics, on the other hand, are the victims of very isolating problems and do not often reach out for help. "Anorexics tend to become more and more withdrawn," says Rosalind J. Carter '86, an EPO counselor...
...frivolity in the life of a serious intellectual then he has obviously never read the works of Oscar Wilde. Although the frivolity of sport obviously addles the athlete's mind so that he or she deviates from Rightthink (to quote: "The houses with the highest percentage of athletes tend to vote the most conservatively--against the campus norm"), I would argue that such activity helps students retain their sanity...