Weight Manipulation Weight manipulation, or eating disorders, is a very serious form of body alteration. It is a problem which adversely affects millions of people mentally and physically. Weight manipulation is, quite simply, the changing of body size, either adding or subtracting from it, by personal behavior. Anorexia, bulimia, and obesity are the most common eating disorders.
Anorexics eat very little to nothing in order to control their weight.
Bulimics will eat in excess and then force themselves to vomit or otherwise quickly get rid of the food or weight. When not bingeing they often obsessively diet. Their weight may be normal unless they are also anorexic. Eating disorders, specifically bulimia and anorexia, are most often associated with women, and while they do affect women in a higher percentage, men are not exempt from their grasp. About five to ten percent of anorexics and bulimics are men.