Evaluation:
Published: 12.11.2003.
Language: English
Level: Secondary school
Literature: n/a
References: Not used
  • Essays 'Anorexia and Bulimia', 1.
Extract

Dying to be thin--
There may be murmurs about that girl who only fixes herself a salad with only vinegar at dining services or suspicious glances at someone who spends 45 minutes on the treadmill and then switches to the stair stepper at the rec. On-campus eating disorders are talked about everywhere and yet are not really talked about at all. There is observation, concern, and gossip, but hushed conversation and larger scale efforts to help and change never seem to take public attention. There is this girl that I grew up and graduated with. …

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