Word: anorexia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...activity show up in countless ways. The child actor grows up without an education; the tennis star mysteriously drops off the circuit to spend some time being a teenager; the figure skater takes part in a plot to club an opponent. Child athletes may ruin their bodies: ballerinas develop anorexia; teen football players take steroids. And doctors say they are seeing more and more young people who are not special stars exhibiting a range of emotional problems, from depression to eating disorders to suicidal tendencies. "We see many children whose lives are overscheduled, who go from one set of lessons...
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...What I appreciate about her view of anorexia is how she combines individual experience with political issues," said Lois W. Choi...
...said it was important for younger women not to get the wrong idea--thin does not always equal healthy, and she urged women to balance fitness with the risk of developing an eating disorder like anorexia or bulimia...
Frisch also disproved the common notion that excessive exercise makes women more susceptible to bone fractures and osteoporosis. The myth, Frisch says, first arose from other studies establishing a strong incidence of bone fractures in ballet dancers. Frisch says the correlation is probably due to the increased incidence of anorexia among dancers, not exercise...