Community study traces bulimia's origins. (eating disorder)(Brief Article)

From: Science News | Date: July 5, 1997| Author: Bower, Bruce | Copyright information

Research indicates that young women likely to become bulimic tend to share specific predisposing characteristics including a negative self-image in childhood and early experience with obesity. In addition, many bulimics also had developed other psychiatric problems such as depression before becoming bulimic.

Young women afflicted with bulimia nervosa careen between feast and famine. Frantic binges of food consumption alternate with fasting, self-induced vomiting, and other effort...

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