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Colleges and universities around the country are reporting an increased prevalence of
eating problems among young female students. Difficulties include obsession with food,
starvation dieting, severe weight loss, obesity, and compulsive binge eating, often
followed by self-induced vomiting (Hesse-Biber, 1989, p. 71). What are the reasons for
eating disorders among college-aged women? It is the purpose of this paper to discuss this
question and give an overview of several possible answers, determined following an
examination of current psychological literature in this area of concern. The reasons for
difficulties around the issues of food and eating are myriad and complex. They touch on
every aspect of being female, and no single answer sufficiently explains the phenomenon of
college students who overeat or undereat as a response to stress. In her book, Anatomy of
a Food Addiction, author Anne Katherine calls eating the "great escape" and pinpoints the
vulnerabilities of women to childhood origins (1991, p. 70). She believes that girls are
taught that they cannot fight or flee. Unlike boys, who have the outlets of strenuous play
and fighting to release anger, girls are taught that they must cope within the difficult
situation while remaining there. In the girl-child's attempts to find solace in a situation
from which she cannot escape, she learns that sweet food will release chemicals that
soothe her when she is frightened and angry. Thus, she learns rather early in life that food
gives her a way to avoid feeling trapped and overwhelmed. This conditioned response to
stress then carries over into adult living, and in situations where the young woman feels
overwhelmed, frightened, cornered, confused, miserable, or lonely, the body seeks relief,
and the whole organism tries to lead her into a way of release....
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