Fitness & Wellness

Campus officials see bulimia, anorexia rising among males

Published in Diabetes Week, October 11th, 2004

Dietitian Jane Jakubczak says she rarely, if ever, treated male students who had eating disorders such as bulimia or anorexia a few years ago.

Now, Jakubczak, who works at the University Health Center on the University of Maryland College Park, says a new student comes in once with a week with some form of distorted eating pattern, an obsession with body image, or excessive exercise routines.

Jakubczak, says the apparent increase of eating disorders among men on campus echoes a national trend and is fed by the unrealistic images of the male physique in the media.

"When they come in to see me they don't think they have a problem,"...

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