Word: weightness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...disease that has gradually been acknowledged in American society. After almost two decades of books and magazine articles and TV talk shows, people are aware now that eating disorders exist. They vary from cyclical pattern of binging and purging (bulimia), to the rapid loss of body weight (anorexia), to eating when depressed or to relieve stress (compulsive eating...
...reason is obvious: there is much more pressure on women in western society to be thin, while underweight men are regarded as effeminate. Women's health and beauty magazines consist chiefly of articles aimed at weight reduction, but magazines geared to men focus on physical fitness rather than slenderness. Indeed, this produces its own complications: studies have shown that one to three percent of all college seniors and approximately 85 percent of all football players have taken anabolic steroids to build muscle mass at one time or another...
Indeed, Aaron's dogged determination to lose weight was cloaked by his intense training regime. No one though it was strange when he began adding another hour or two to his already rigorous two-and-a-half hour swim practices. He managed to persuade his coach that, after his most important meets were over, he would regain the weight he had lost...
...Eating disorders in men aren't always clinical," says a male member of Eating Concerns Hotline and Outreach (ECHO), the eating disorder support group at Harvard. "They can get to clinical proportions, but most men, especially male athletes, aren't losing weight because they think they're fat. It's not about a loss of control." Male jockeys, wrestlers, swimmers and even dancers are all vulnerable to eating disorders because their professions necessitate weight restrictions. Yet while they may engage in aberrant eating practices, they resume regular eating patterns during the off-season...
Perhaps the one sport that has attracted the most attention in this wrestling themselves of food and fluids to "make weight" for matches. A survey at a major college wrestling tournament in the late 1980s revealed that 41 percent of wrestlers reported weight fluctuations of between five and nine kilograms every week of the season. While there are obvious short-term advantages to such a practice, weight "cutting" can throw off a wrestler's metabolic rate and can increase his risk of developing cardiovascular disease...