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It's unbelievable how dumb and desperate we can be when we are young. Looking back, I did a lot of stupid things. Thank God, none of them affected my health.

Not so for many young women. The latest trend? Skipping food to drink lots of alcohol. Their logic is that alcohol has a lot of calories. So, if they avoid food altogether they can save some calories and not gain weight. It's something many people have done at one time or another. But the women I'm talking about do it all the time. Sometimes going up to three days with no food in order to enjoy a wild night of partying.

Addiction experts call it "drunkorexia", a dangerous combination of alcohol abuse and serious eating disorder. It's something therapists say affects mostly young women. Women, who feel the pressure to be the life of the party and the pressure to stay thin. They don't realize that without food....alcohol puts a serious strain on a person's organs. It affects the kidneys, liver, heart, and brain. Many women also tend to black out.
For me, it's sad to see the kind of damage this "new trend" can cause. One of the girls I interviewed for a news story, tells me she often blacks out and wakes up with total strangers, in jail and in hospitals with doctors telling her that her alcohol level is so high, they don't know how she's alive. Still, she keeps doing it over and over.

Perhaps it's because once you're hooked on drunkorexia it's very difficult to stop it. If you suspect someone is doing it, please get some help. Here's a link to a treatment center helping women with this new alcohol abuse/eating disorder problem.
www.rebeccashouse.org

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