Date Scr Subject Newsgroup Author 1. Pleas alt.support.eating-di john.pepin 17. A review of hospital records is challenging the conventional wisdom that anorexia nervosa, a sometimes fatal eating disorder, is caused by the preoccupation with thinness in Western culture. He was an Irish gangster, who was respected and feared in many ways by the Italian mafia. I'm Dr. Steve Salvatore.
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Britain's Prime Minister Tony Blair begins a four-day visit to the United States. Today is the 13th annual U.S. celebration of National Girls and Women in Sports Day. On the horizon On Thursday, February 5, the Senate Agriculture Committee holds a hearing on the December global warming agreement reached in Kyoto, Japan. They are teens who burn themselves with acid, cut themselves, bang their heads against walls or dig pens in their legs. The behavior is sometimes compared to anorexia or bulemia.