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Word: weightness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...disease is characterized by rapid loss of 15 percent of body weight, loss of menstrual cycle in women for three consecutive months, intense fear of weight gain, and highly distorted body image...

Author: By Rebecca M. Wand, | Title: At Harvard, Eating Disorders Common | 11/4/1994 | See Source »

...summer after seventh grade, living abroad, Elizabeth began to drop weight. "I just didn't eat. I numbed out to the world," she says. "It was a very disturbing time of upheaval because I had just moved and moved again...

Author: By Rebecca M. Wand, | Title: At Harvard, Eating Disorders Common | 11/4/1994 | See Source »

...reached a weight of 88 pounds and stopped weighing herself...

Author: By Rebecca M. Wand, | Title: At Harvard, Eating Disorders Common | 11/4/1994 | See Source »

...that point the weight didn't even matter, I just had to keep on losing it," she says. "I blocked out a lot of it, but [I remember] that whenever I hit something with my hip bones I'd get a bruise. I could count my ribs...

Author: By Rebecca M. Wand, | Title: At Harvard, Eating Disorders Common | 11/4/1994 | See Source »

Recovery entails a lot more than just gaining the weight back, she says...

Author: By Rebecca M. Wand, | Title: At Harvard, Eating Disorders Common | 11/4/1994 | See Source »

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