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Cynthia's eating binges, always followed by self-induced vomiting or heavy use of laxatives, are symptoms of bulimarexia (from the Greek words for ox and hunger), an eating disorder also known as gorge-purge syndrome and bulimia nervosa Some bulimarectics gorge themselves four or five times a week, putting away 40,000 calories, then take 200 to 600 laxative pills. "To many of them, a day without binging is like a day without sunshine," says Health Educator Mary Ellen Shanesey of the University of Illinois. "They have chosen this way to handle stress, as alcoholics use alcohol...
...solitary-confinement prisoners refused to eat yesterday at the Massachusetts Correctional Institute at Walpole, continuing a hunger strike which started a week...
...prisoners have presented no formal demands and have not told guards they are on a hunger strike, Landolfi said. "We don't view as demands" prisoners' requests for better food and more access to facilities, he said, adding that Cellblock 10 inmates have visiting and exercise privileges and access to a law library...
These demands are constant with or without hunger strikes, she added...
Daniel M. Pallotta '83, co-director of the Harvard Hunger Action Committee (HHAC), said 45 to 50 per cent of Harvard undergraduates are expected to fast on November 20th...