Exercise Bulimia

Just stumbled onto an article that caught my interest, it's about eating disorders and overexercising. This particular article focused on Bulimia, more commonly known as, "throwing up your food after you eat it to stay skinny," however many college students might be humbled to learn that another aspect of bulimia is "people who use means of exercise to purge through weight loss." Now this is a very touchy subject, as exercise is a very important, and very beneficial activity for every human, but in this particular case, the article was referring to those who spend hours a day, every day, in the gym. More specifically, those individuals that have such ritualistic exercise practices, that they wouldn't slow even if they reached the level of fitness they were striving for, those who have exercised past the point of becoming skinny or toned, and are beginning to cause permanant damage to their body. This is more a stereotypical thing for models and actresses, but it happens much more commonly everyday in local high school and college gyms, all the way up to the obsessed soccer moms who can never seem to get back to thier high school weight.