Are there any reporters with experience in the exercise of bulimia?”
Oct. 17, 2009 Emerging Eating Disorder: Exercise Bulimia Sufferers Work Out Excessively, Compulsively, Rather than Vomiting, to Purge Calories, Potentially Risking Their Lives BS) A little-known form of the eating disorder bulimia is getting more and more attention from medical professionals — exercise bulimia. As CBSNews.com’s Cali Carlin reported on “The Early Show Saturday Edition,” people with the disorder can’t stop themselves from working out excessively and compulsively, with potentially serious health consequences. This “startling” form of bulimia is of particular concern, Carlin says, because it happens in plain sight and doesn’t involve the hidden vomiting-to-purge-calories marking the form of bulimia more people are familiar with, making exercise bulimia hard to recognize, and insidious. In addition, she points out, eating disorders in general have the highest mortality rate of any mental illness. Carlin spoke with Robyn Yamanaka who is, ironically, a professional trainer.
