Anorexia and bulimia: early prevention and detection. (The Mortification of the Flesh).

From: Women's Health Collection | Date: January 1, 2001| Author: Bello, Alicia; Eguia, Roberto | Copyright information

Thirty years ago, there was no record of anorexia nervosa and bulimia anywhere in the world. Not because physicians and psychiatrists lacked the tools to detect these disorders, but because the boom of waif-like thinness had not yet invaded western women's collective imagination.

Until the 1960s when Twiggy's skeletal figure traipsed down the catwalk, fashion's spotlight illuminated voluptuous bodies, with the odd little bulge tucked away here and there. Today, however, ...

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