Word: weightness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...director of the Eating Disorders Clinic with eating disorders both make tremendous psychological and physical investments in their bodies In an article entitled "Eating Disorders in Males: A Special Case?" Anderson claims that both male athletes and anorexics abuse substances in attempts to achieve near-impossible goals of body weight or muscular definition. Whether it be steroids or laxatives, in Machiavellian terms the end is though to justify the means...
...males with eating disorders, although a rarity, are different from male athletes who attempt to lower their body weight during the off-season. Anderson's studies document that males have a higher probability than women of having been obese prior to the onset of their eating disorders. Both males and females with eating disorders often come from families with affective disorders and have personal histories of mood an personality disorders. Various theories have been tossed around about what type of male is more susceptible to an eating disorder--some suggest that the incidence is higher among homosexual men while others...
...that Aaron was suffering from an eating disorder. It was only then that I found out the "true" story, through a friend--that Aaron's' bewildered parents had quietly slipped him into therapy, that he'd been kicked off the swim team until he gained the lost weight back, an that he spend a month with the threat of hospitalization over his head. He never the years that followed. but then, why should he have? I had female friends in high school with eating disorders that were tactfully even brought up, even in moments of intimate conversation...
...anyone outside his special circle, the fate of a young Texan named James would have seemed as predictable as it was tragic. The Austin restaurant worker had developed the telltale red-and-purple lesions and had suffered night sweats, diarrhea and weight loss. Then came the inevitable coda; his doctor informed him that he had AIDS. In fact, his T-cell count was down from a normal range of 800 to 1,200 to a depressing...
...promotion or a new client. By contrast, women lighten, heighten, straighten, curl, iron and bleach their hair. Unwanted hair is ripped out by its roots with hot wax, shaved, electrolyted and depilated. Bound feet may never have caught on here, but high heels that force the entire body weight to rest on the tip of the big toe are a cause of daily anguish...