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Article: Growing number of men have eating disorders
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
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- May 17, 2004
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Growing number of men have eating disorders
By MICHAEL HILL Associated Press
Monday, May 17, 2004
Intentional starvation, cookie binges, vomiting, hospitalization.
. . . The details were typical for an eating disorder.
But Jeff Everts might not seem like a typical sufferer.
In an era of diet fixation, chiseled underwear models and "a
culture of muscularity," some researchers say eating problems among
men are getting worse -- even as sufferers face a lingering stigma
about having a "women's disorder."
"We're able to hide it much better," said Everts, a 43-year-old
Albuquerque, N.M., resident recovering from anorexia and bulimia. "We
don't talk about it, where women would."
Women are more ...