When Boys Get Too Much Exercise (Really)
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Submitted by Boys and Schools Blog
I have never struggled with an eating disorder. I do struggle with lack of self-control regarding junk food and delicious snacks, but that’s neither here nor there. I have, however, seen quite a few after-school specials, Lifetime movies, and MTV documentaries about people with eating disoders, and if I have learned one thing from the Very Special Episode about Emily’s secret (other than the fact that the star of the school football team is turned off by bulimia), it’s that one of the difficulties for people in the beginnign stages of anorexia is that they tend to get very positive feedback initially regarding their change of appearance–which only serves to aggravate the problem.
