BULIMIA

A symptom of depression?

BOSTON (UPI) - Bulimia —
the binge-purge’ eating
syndrome affecting 2 million
American women — is a
form of severe depression
and is being treated suc-
cessfully with drugs for the
first time, psychiatrists say.
Harvard Medical School
researchers reported
Thursday an anti-depressant
drug eliminated all signs of
bulimia in one in every three
women studied who suffered
from the eating disorder,

which they say has a
chemical and _ hereditary
basis.

Ninety per cent of the
women treated showed some
improvement. The
researchers said the illness
afflicting up to 2 million
American women is a form
of major depression rather
than an illness of a society
that places too high a value
on thinness.

But they cautioned  suf-
ferers against thinking the
illness can be cured in all
cases with medication.

“All the evidence seems to
point in the same direction.
Bulimia does have a
biological basis and is not
just due to cultural and
psychological factors,” said
Dr. Harrison G. Pope, who
led the research team from
Harvard and Mclean
Hospital in suburban

Belmont.
Bulimia involved gorging
— im some documented

cases up to 3,500 calories per
binge, nine times a week —
then purging the sytem
through vomiting and the
ingestion of massive
quatities of laxatives.

Pope said 90 per cent of
the women treated with the
drug imipramine reported
they binged half as
frequently with the

medication, while seven of
20 women were totally free
of the binging one year after
beginning treatment, Pope
said.

The women also reported
they felt much better and
were no longer totally
preoccupied with food, said
Dr. James I. Hudson, a
psychopharmacologist on
the team.

“They described a feeling
of normality which had been
lost for many years and a
liberation from their
depression,” he said.

But Pope urged caution in
interpreting the results.

“This is not the cure-all for
bulimia,” he said. “Although
90 per cent of our patients
had at least moderate im-
provement, it must be
pointed out only 35 per cent
had compete remission of
the binging.

- NEWS photo Terry Peters
WINNERS of a North Shore News sponsored computer and writing competition are
congratulated by Faye McCrae (centre). Winners (left to right) are Graham Gavine,
Steven Jeffcoat, Laura Wilson and Sandra Anderson. The stadents took spring break
computer camps put on by The Educators.

IT OPENS JUNE 19

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name British Columbia’s
New Stadium

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British Columbia’s new Stadium opens June 19,
1983. As promised, B.C. Place ts asking for your
advice on what its name should be.

With your help, and in consultation with the
provincial government, we will officially name
the stadium on May 16.
Please write us with your individual choice no
petitions please. Send your suggestions to

Name British Columbia's Stadium
c/o B.C. Place

Post Office Box 11626

2100-650 West Georgia St
Vancouver, B.C. V6B 4N9

Please have your suggestion in to us by May 10, 1983

ANTILLAS

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