When I was at university, and at this point let me just add Stellenbosch University for dramatic effect, eating wasn’t a choice. In fact it wasn’t even an issue. All you needed money for was drinking. Food was that thing you thought of at 4am when stumbling out of Springboks and you looked up and saw the heavenly arch that is McDonalds. This is now apparently a disease.

Drunkorexics, most of them women, skip eating to reserve calories for binge drinking. Had I known about this I wouldn’t have had to deal with first year syndrome whereby I packed on a mere 20 kg.

An ABC report says that experts warn that these college kids are seriously compromising their health. Gosh, I would consider it a bonus being able to down copious amounts of alcohol without gaining weight.

However I do see the serious side of this. “Abuse counselors are putting the word ‘drunkorexia’ in line with other eating disorders because the patient uses the same type of methods as anorexia and bulimia- they just mix it with alcohol too,” said Dr. Kevin Prince, Alcohol & Other Drug Education Program Coordinator at the University Health Services in Austin, Texas.

“Anorexia has the highest death rate of any psychiatric illness. It’s an incredibly serious disorder. When you’re starving yourself, your brain is really starved. You’ve had the experience of drinking on an empty stomach? These folks are drinking on an empty body.”

So it is pretty scary, but I still find it unfair that these chicks have so much willpower. You try say no to a double cheese burger on a hangover.

[source: newser]

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