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This "rising trend" on college campuses, as Science Daily reports, is a non-medical term used to describe eating disordered behaviors, like anorexia, bulimia, or binge eating, combined with substance abuse, most often binge drinking.
According to a new study, it's growing and thriving on college campuses. In theory, drinking on an empty stomach might seem like a good idea. Alcohol hits your system faster with no food to soak it up, which means more high for your money!
Plus, we live in a world where people are obsessed with dieting and body image. Add that to the college students' desire to get drunk. The result is Drunkorexia.
Did I hear someone say it's a cute word for a kind of scary phenomenon?
Drunkorexia, which is both an alcohol disorder and an eating disorder, isn't anything new, say experts. "The effect is very well known and has been discussed and observed by many experts," Dr. Petros Levounis, chair of the department of psychiatry at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, told CBS News.
What is new, according to this latest study from University of Houston, is that the behavior could be more common than previously thought. Researchers surveyed 1,184 college students, mostly from Texas, who said they had consumed alcohol heavily at least once in the past 30 days.
And more than 80% said they had engaged in at least one drunkorexia-related behavior in three previous months, such as drinking to excess on an empty stomach or attempting to counteract the calorie intake of drinking with purging or extreme diet or exercise.
Restricting calories while boozing heavily might seem good in theory, but without food to mediate the effects of booze, you are at higher risk for drinking-related injuries, alcohol poisoning and more.
Sources: Science Daily
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