Page 2-- The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, March 5, 1986 4 HEALTH & FITNESS Bulimia exaggerated, prof says By WENDY SHARP Actress Jane Fonda may believe that 20 percent of American women suffer from bulimia, but a University researcher has concluded that the numbers of female college students force feeding themselves and then throwing up may be as low as 5 percent. . "What does she know?" said Public Health Prof. Adam Drewnowski, referring to the concer- nis of Fonda and health officials that the eating disorder may pose a major health hazard. Drewnowski disputes these claims as exaggerated, although he acknowledges that the psychologically-triggered disease still represents a significant problem. Drewnowski has been researching bulimia for two years in a joint project with University Health Services and the housing division. The disease is a psychosomatic process of binge eating and throwing up which results primarily from negative reactions to stress. Long-term effects of- ten include weight fluctuations from 10 to 15 poun- ds, kidney and heart problems, and dental erosion. Drewnowski bases his preliminary findings on a survey he passed out to University freshmen through the residence halls in 1984. The survey contained 40 questions concerning aspects of eating behavior such as binge eating, diet 'strategies, and vomiting or starvation techniques. From a 40 percent response rate, he has deter- mined that about 5 percent of college age women develop the disease from a combination of psychological factors that include poor reactions to the stress of college, other personality variables and a desire to stay thin. He said the 5 percent figure is consistent with data from several other universities. DREWNOWSKI also cited previous studies by Craig Johnson, a psychology professor at North- western University who found that the average Bo Pt TRENEW HA PALA TREE in Yale Un RESTAURANT folder m bulimic is 18 years old, yet a typical treatment begins at 24. "We're trying to figure out why some don't have bulimia when they come to the University but have it two years later," Drewnowski said. His research will encompass three phases, the first of which is the current numerical evaluations. In stage two, Drewnowski will examine the development of new cases and he will then conclude the project with a look at methods of prevention. IN APRIL, he plans to present his initial fin- dings to the Eastern Psychiatric Association of New York. Tips for preventing bulimia and other eating disorders such as anorexia nervosa are eagerly awaited by housing officials fearing for students in residence halls and others who help students cope with psychological trauma. "We're trying to get the baseline information about nutrition in general, said John Heidke, assistant housing director. 'We want to be more attentive to students and help determine which students are having problems." JUDY Banker, the director of the Ann Arbor Center for Eating Disorders said her experience leads her to believe that the number of people with eating disorders is on the increase. "Absolutely there are more cases now." said Banker, who often gives presentations at the University, especially at sorority houses. During these presentations Banker asks, "how many of you know anyone with.an eating disorder?" Last year, one-fourth to one-third of the hands would go up," she said. At two recent presentations, Banker said 95 percent of the hands went up. Banker said that some reasons behind the in- crease are "media attention, models and their glamorous portrayal, and the emphasis on ex- treme thinness now." A COUNSELOR working at the center who refused to be identified agreed that the problem of bulimia and anorexia nervosa "is definitely growing. It's big at any University. There is no evidence of it dying out." She also recognized that anorexics have deep emotional problems. Bulimics are more willing to admit "I am a bulimic," than are anorexics she said. "With anorexics half the problem is admit- ting it." The Center offers four support groups, in- dividual counseling, hotline information, and a referral service. One support group will hold its first meeting tomorrow. The other groups are more specific and are categorized by anorexia- related problems, bulimia, or overeating. THE HOTLINE, which averages about four calls a day, is for "moral support, information, or just to talk," according to Banker. Banker boasts of a referral service that includes "therapists, agencies, and physicians both in and out of Ann Arbor." An LSA junior spoke from experience when he said, "most people view anorexia as just simply being conscious of weight. But it is much more complex than that." He said his sister had anorexia seven years ago. "We went to camp one summer and she lost twenty pounds," he said. She continued to lose weight rapidly and went to a hospital weighing only sixty pounds. "If she lost a few more pounds, she would have probably died," he added. His sister survived and now her brother is more understanding of her and of anorexia. "There are many reasons for anorexia, such as a fear of sex, peer pressure, and the fear of growing up," he said. "People oversimplify and don't understand the true problem." Kok exposes Yale anti-semitism VEN, Conn. (AP) - Buried niversity's archives is a arked "The Jewish Authentic Middle Eastern Cuisine Featuring: " hommos, tabouli " Iamb shishkebob " falafel * homemade frozen yogurt plus a large variety of other health foods EVERYTHING FRESH MADE (no preservatives) 216 S. Fourth Ave. Open: Ann Arbor Mon-Thur. 11 a.m.-9 p.m. 662-2642 FrinaSat. k n 1ampus p.m. 5 minute walk from central campus Problem," filled with the papers of a past Yale president concerned with keeping down the number of Jews at- tending the Ivy League school. These and other records document' anti-Semitism at Yale in the first half of this century, according to Dan Oren, author of the newly published' book "Joining The Club: A History of Jews and Yale." Yale adopted an informal quota in the 1920s to keep the number of Jewish students at 10 percent, Oren said; before then few Jews had applied. The college had no Jews as full professors until 1946 - 20 years after Harvard - though its graduate school had Jewish professors before then. "NONE OF this was done publicly," said Oren, a 1979 Yale graduate and now a resident in pyschiatry at the Yale School of Medicine. "As far as overt anti-Semitism, it was really very polite. I mean, Yale students were very much gentlemen. You didn't go around calling people names." Oren agreen that anti-Semitism plagued other Ivy League schools in the years before World War II. But he says it hung on longer at Yale. Oren, who grew up in a conser- vative Jewish family, said he encoun- tered no anti-Semitism while a student. He stumbled onto Yale's "Jewish problem" while a sophomore when he saw a brief reference in a history book about Jews being ex- cluded from campus clubs and frater- nities during the 1920s and 1930s. HE INTER VIEWED scores of Yale alumni and combed the university ar- chives, where he found documents like the board of admission's annual report for 1944-45. "The Jewish problem ... continues to call for the utmost care and tact" the board warned. "The proportion of Jews among the candidates . . . for admission . . . has somewhat in- creased and remains too large for comfort." Oren found the folder labeled "The Jewish Problem" among the personal papers of James Angell, Yale president from 1921 to 1927. Eugene Rostow, a 1933 Yale graduate and former dean of the Yale Law School, insists anti-Semitism was no worse at Yale than anywhere else. "I KNEW there were problems of anti-Semitism here and there, as there were elsewhere in American society, but I was given a very warm welcome indeed and had a wonderful time," Rostow said. But Oren says Rostow was excep- tional, and that he was shocked by his discoveries and by the bitterness he heard from some graduates. Other Jews from that era, he said, had experiences similar to those of well-know political columnist Max Lerner, a member of Yale class of 1923. Lerner remembers "being kept out of everything. Not in any formal way, but in the way we were treated." Oren said anti-Semitism began to diminish after World War II, partly in reaction against Nazism. IN BRIEF COMPILED FROM ASSOCIATED PRESS AND UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL REPORTS U.S. official says some PLO attacks on Israel legitimate WASHINGTON - The director of Arabian Peninsula affairs for the State Department has described some of the armed assaults against Israel by the Palestine Liberation Organization as "legitimate actions of resistance." Gordon Brown, in a televised broadcast Monday to the Gulf region, said the acts were part of the 40-year Arab-Israeli conflict and different from assaults by Palestinians against innocent civilians in third countries. * Brown was interviewed on Worldnet, a program sponsored by the U.S. Information Agency. In response yesterday to a reporter's inquiry, Brown called the incident "a tempest in a teapot." "I was caught off-guard by a question that I mishandled," he told The Associated Press. "It was an effort to say that as long as there is a state of war, violence exists in the area." Yossi Gal, a spokesman for the Israeli Embassy, said the government had complained about Brown's remarks to the State Department and asked for an explanation. The PLO is sworn to the destruction of Israel as a Jewish state. Most countries, however, deal with Yasser Arafat's organization. The United States has barred recognition of the PLO until it accepts Israel's right to exist and foreswears terrorism. Aquino seizes Marcos' assets MANILA, Philippines - The Aquino government said yesterday it was seizing business enterprises and bank deposits in a bid to recover "ill- gotten wealth accumulated" by deposed President Ferdinand Marcos, his family and associates. Former Sen. Jovito Salonga, chairman of the Commission on Good Government, told reporters that a five-member panel was collecting evidence against Marcos and his associates and that they will be "given their day in court." Officials also said the Aquino government has begun to dismantle powerful military and internal security agencies that helped keep Marcos in power for 20 years. In another development, five justices of the 12-member supreme court submitted their resignations to Aquino, bringing to six the number who had quit in response to her bid to purge the judiciary of Marcos appoin- tees the government said. Twenty-three other appeals judges resigned. Blanchard signs tax cut bill PLEASANT RIDGE, Mich. - Declaring "Michigan has ended a decade of deficit," Gov. James Blanchard yesterday signed into law a measure cutting the state's income tax rate to 4.6 percent effective Mar- ch 31. Worked out by House Taxation Committee Chairman Lynn Jondahl (D- East Lansing) and ranking Republican tax committee member Rep. William Bryant of Grosse Pointe Farms, the tax-cut bill signed by Blan- chard contains provisions allowing for a retroactive rollback as early as Jan.1 if the state has enough money. State officials have estimated that the March 31 rollback - which reduces the rate from its current 5.1 percent - will reduce the state tax burden faced by a family of four making $30,000 annually by $2.31 a week. It is expected to cost the state treasury about $192 million this year. U.S. has moral duty to aid Contra rebels, Shultz says WASHINGTON - Secretary of State George Shultz told a House panel yesterday the United States has a moral duty to supply aid to Nicaraguan rebels trying to overthrow the leftist Sandinista government. In an appearance before a House Appropriations subcommittee, Shultz painted the situation in Central America in stark and simple terms, calling the Contras "the good guys," and the Sandinistas "the bad guys" and "a very undesirable cancer in the area, He said the administration believes it has a moral imperative to "sup- port those people. . . willing to fight for freedom and independence." Although the administration's request for $100 million in aid to the Con- tras is its immediate priority, Shultz' appearance before the subcommit- tee was mostly to lobby for the administration's overall foreign aid budget. The panel chairman, Rep. David Obey (D-Wis.) told Shultz that Congress will not approve President Reagan's request for a $15.5 million foreign aid budget and directed him "back to the drawing board." Waldheim identified as Nazi VIENNA, Austria - A news magazine published what it says is a recently declassified document identifying former U.N. Secretary- General Kurt Waldheim as a member of two Nazi organizations, in- cluding Hitler's infamous security troops. The New York Times yesterday also said Waldheim was a member of the groups, and said it obtained documents in Vienna showing he was at- tached to a German army command in World War II which fought brutal campaigns against Yugoslav partisans and which deported Greek Jews. Waldheim is campaigning for the Austrian presidency and is con- sidered a front-runner with the elections two months away. The newsweekly Profil quoted Waldheim as categorically denying ever belonging to either Nazi organization. A spokesman for Waldheim, Gerold Christian, also denied the report, but told The Associated Press that Waldheim was a German army officer in the Balkans in World War II. He said Waldheim was a translator and was not involved in any atrocities. The Times quoted Waldheim, the U.N. secretary-general from 1572-82, as saying he did not consider himself a member of either group. Vol. XCVI - No. 104 The Michigan Daily (ISSN 0745-967 X) is published Monday through Friday during the fall and winter terms. Subscription rates: September through April-$18 in Ann Arbor; $35 outside the city. One term-$10 in town; $20 outside the city. 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