of college women may suffer from anorexia or bulimia (Pirke & Ploog, 1984).
             The disease develops slowly over a period of months to years during which the sufferer changes her eating patterns to a very restricted diet. As stated previously above, an anorexic is diagnosed by having a body weight 20% below the expected body weight of a healthy person at the same age and height of the eating disorder patient. The anorexic may often become frightened of gaining weight and even of food itself. The patient may feel fat, even though their body weight is well below the normal weight for their height. Some may even feel they do not deserve pleasure out of life and will deprive themselves of situations offering pleasure, including eating. This fear becomes so difficult to manage that the sufferer will gradually isolate themselves from other people and social activities. This happens so the sufferer can continue the exhausting anorexic behaviors.
             Although the mortality rate is high (30% of anorexics will eventually die from the disease), approximately one third are able to overcome the disease with psychiatric help (Pirke & Ploog, 1984). Warning signs to look for in someone you suspect of anorexia. Physical signs or intolerance of cold due to the absence of the body's natural insulator (fat), dizziness and fai
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