Word: bulemia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...said she hopes to apply this restraint theory, formulated by Canadian researchers Janet Polivy and Peter Herman, to bulemia for the first time. Using other eating disorders as a model, Polivy and Herman postulated that after starving themselves, dieters experience a physchological state of deprivation and an increased amount of tension, which expresses itself in binging...
...experimental group will include 30 subjects, who all have bulemia symptoms. Fox is currently interviewing perspective candidates from both Harvard and Tufts for this group...
...said that although "with proper treatment bulemia can be handled," she added that she is uncertain victims can maintain their success. The key to success, she said, is realizing that "the average American female was not meant to be a size three...
With the release of a Radcliffe study last year that showed seven percent of Harvard women to have some kind of eating disorder and the founding of a student support group for these disorders, the problems of anorexia and bulemia are being recognized at Harvard. And its effects on those women who have the most reason to be concerned with their health, athletes, are similarly beginning to receive attention from coaches and the Athletic Department...
...Individual athletes associate with the coach, and some coaches don't get a grip on where eating disorders come from," says Costin, who sees bulemia and other eating disorders as part of a larger Harvard problem...