Drunkorexia: A term coined to refer to condition of binge drinking combined with the typical self-imposed starvation seen with anorexia nervosa. It has also been used to refer to individuals who use purging (as seen with bulimia nervosa) to try to reduce caloric intake to offset the calories consumed in alcohol. The typical individual described as a drunkorexic is a college-aged woman who is a binge drinker, starving all day in order to get drunk at night. (Source: MedicineNet.com)
The Calgary Herald reports that a non-peer reviewed study (aka Science By Press Release) found that one in five students in campuses suffer from drunkorexia, and that this ‘’disorder’’ could affect their ability to learn, to make decisions, and to ultimately damage their internal organs. They sure give new and awful connotations to something many students have been doing ever since universities were established and mostly all grew out of it alive, don't they?
''Valerie Taylor, the chief of psychiatry at Women's College Hospital in Toronto, told the paper that “alcohol abuse and mental-health issues are on the rise in Canada and schools continue to try to address the problem.”
Perhaps Taylor should be looking elsewhere for the cause of the rise in mental health issues in Canada because according to Statistics Canada alcohol consumption is not increasing. Actually it has decreased significantly since 2004. Rather than blaming an increase in alcohol consumption that simply didn’t happen for the rise of mental issues, Taylor should be looking at psychotropic drugs that her profession is now over-prescribing to ever younger children.
(Hat Tip to Andrew Phillips at http://www.andrewmphillips.net/Adhd.php for the video)
What we're witnessing is only the beginning of the modern day alcohol prohibition and there will be a lot more from where this came from. Better get used to reading results from junk studies, bogus statistics, sound bites such as no safe level of alcohol, harm to the ''kiddies'', new disorders, new drugs, higher taxes, no advertizing, gory health warnings on the bottles…There is lots of money to be made from selling anti-alcohol propaganda. http://www.wikihow.com/Quit-Drinking-Alcohol-Using-Anti-Craving-Medication
The WHO propagandists are talking about it here European Region has heaviest drinking in the world - Countries seek to reduce the harmful use of alcohol where you can read that ''There is no safe level of drinking, and in many societies no difference in the risk for men and women.''
The CDC talks about it here Alcohol & Public Health
The CDC talks about it here Alcohol & Public Health
So does anyone want to wager on how many years before we are no longer allowed to drink in a bar if we don’t seriously fight against these neo-prohibitionists? Get involved now! Write, phone, use public forums and open lines to make your opinion known before it goes too far.
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No drinking, no smoking , no overeating, no fatty foods. Over prescribing drugs by doctors is already allowed. We are becoming robots in a society that was once depicted in futuristic movies.
"drunkorexic" sounds like an undiscovered dinosaur!
Like the old joke says, it's not that we will be living longer with all these health measures, it's that it will seem that way :-)
LOL at your ''drunkorexic'' dinosaur.
Iro
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