Article: Growing number of men have eating disorders

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."

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