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...Staff writer Katharine A. Kaplan can be reached at kkaplan@fas.harvard.edu...
...scientists who have studied both groups say that underneath these similarities are two very different syndromes. "Obesity is at its base a metabolic disorder," says Dr. Lee Kaplan, director of the Obesity Research Center at Massachusetts General Hospital. Anorexia and bulimia, he maintains, "are primary psychiatric disorders...
...human body is designed to eat, and eating stops under normal circumstances only when the body senses it has enough energy for its immediate needs and enough stored away for future tasks. "It's hard to lose weight because the body wants to gain it back," says Kaplan. "In a competition between willpower and the body, the body always wins...
...diets because they have managed to throw this basic drive to eat into reverse. Through sheer force of will, anorexics convince their body that it doesn't need food. "Anorexics are able to do things that are clearly beyond what a normal person is capable of doing," says Kaplan. "Theirs is extreme behavior often driven by an inappropriate and distorted body image...
...Staff writer Katharine A. Kaplan can be reached at kkaplan@fas.harvard.edu...