TO BE `THIN': GIRLS' GOAL STILL FATALLY FLAWED EATING DISORDERS GAIN ATTENTION, BUT IMAGE REIGNS UNRELENTING

From: The Boston Globe | Date: December 10, 2000| Author: Larkin McPhee | Copyright information

That a growing number of young women in America suffer from eating disorders is hardly news anymore. A recent study from the Mayo Clinic shows that anorexia has been increasing by 36 percent every five years since the 1950s.

Today, some 8 million people - mostly women, but increasingly men, too - suffer from anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa, a related disorder characterized by binge eating and purging.

Less obvious to many of us, however, is the way in which popular culture a...

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