Eating Disorders and Men

It's widely believed that bulimia is a female problem. The fact is that men are also vulnerable to eating disorders, and they can end up with even more severe complications than women.

This is the conclusion of a study published in "The Lancet" medical journal. Researchers at the University of Iowa College of Medicine examined medical records of men who had starved themselves or gone on eating binges followed by self-purging.

The scientists say they found that men with anorexia, and particularly those with bulimia, had an even lower bone density in their lower spine than did women with eating disorders. Mineral deficiencies were "not only common in men," the study reported, "but also serious."

The Iowa researchers looked at the medical records of patients at an eating disorders unit for seven years starting in 1991. Of those, 46 were men.

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