The Nation - News from Nov. 7, 1985
As many as one-fourth of young American women periodically go on food binges, a Gallup survey found. The poll of women ages 19 to 39 found that to compensate for these binges, almost half the women suffering from this eating disorder resort to extreme measures such as fasting, strenuous exercise, taking purgatives or self-induced vomiting. The survey also found that about 2 million young women have suffered from the symptoms of anorexia or bulimia.
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