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drawing board,” says Winthrop,
who goes to the gym twice a day,
sometimes six days a week.
A slip-and-fail accident in
September caused Winthrop to
curtail his workouts. He has gained
12 pounds, carrying 200 pounds
on a six-foot, one-inch frame. He
admits to binging but never
purging. “I can’t imagine doing
something like that.”
But, increasingly, men are
purging — although many are
hesitant to get help, experts say.
“The stigma of being a man
with a woman’s disorder is huge
and prevents men from seeking
treatment,” says Dr. Paula Levine,
the director of the Anorexia &
Bulimia Resource Center in Coral
Gables, Fla. “Eating disorders are
off the radar as far as most doctors
are concerned. They don’t even
conceive of male eating disorders.
It must be something else wrong if
that person is losing weight.”
Additionally, many men believe
eating disorders are a woman’s
disease, despite the proliferation of
chiseled men in magazines, ads and
TV shows. (Just look at Desperate
Housewives and Jesse Metcalfe,
the perpetually shirtless, hunky
hedge-clipper who’s having an
affair with the gorgeous Gabrielle
(Eva Longoria) on the Sunday
night show.)
“Have you been to the airport
lately? There are almost as many
male magazines as female
magazines,” Levine says.
Such images, coupled with diet
advertisements pitched to men, are
fueling the increase in male eating
disorders.
To counter this, Levine, Cohn
and the National Eating Disorders
Association recently presented a
multimedia discussion with the
topic poor body images and
unhealthy attitudes toward food.
“The pressures on men have
changed over the years. We have a
growing number of advertisers who
realize they have sold diets to every
woman, so they have targeted them
to men,” Cohn says.
“Watch TV. You’ve seen more
men with their shirts off,” Cohn
notes. “You can show a male
nipple. You do that with even one
nipple on a woman and it changes
our culture as you saw on the
Super Bowl. But frontal nudity on
a man above the waist is thought to
be sexy.”
Over the past few years, though,
more men have learned about the
disorder and are beginning to act.
In the past decade, the number of
males seeking treatment at the
Bella Vita Programs, an eating
disorder center in Pasadena, Calif.,
rose 50 percent, said clinical
psychologist Dr. Patricia Pitts, the
center’s executive director. Fifteen
percent of her patients are now
men, compared with seven percent
10 years ago.
Turner, the Southern Cal
college student, turned for help
there. He says his eating disorder
began around age 14, prompted by
a move to a new state.
“The stress of moving at such a
pivotal age and having to make all
new friends in a new environment
no doubt contributed a feeling of
unmanageability to my life,” he
said. “Food was the one thing that
remained controllable and
manageable. Hence, I began to
control my food intake, not
necessarily with the intent of losing
weight, but merely to have
something to control,” he says.
His mother started to push him
to gain weight, he said. “She
worked at a gym, and it seemed to
me that she always had a vision of
me fitting some masculine ideal.”
Leaving home for college
exacerbated the problem.
“Once again I fouhd my life in a
state of flux, and once again I
turned to food to get a sense of
control,” he says. “I now did not
have my mother covertly
countering my disordered eating
habits. My weight plummeted
from around 125 pounds in high
school to 95 pounds.”
Turner spent five months at
Bella Vita as both an inpatient and
outpatient, conferring with
psychologists, psychiatrists and a
dietitian. In November he was
discharged at a healthier 140
pounds — “and a whole new
outlook on life.”
Although symptoms develop
later for males because they reach
puberty later than females, males
involved in sports that require
weight-control — wrestling,
gymnastics, horse racing, diving
and running — are more likely to
be bulimic, according to the
center.
Cepeda, 41, in an e-mail, says
he is addicted to exercise and takes
fat-burning supplements. He’s six
feet tall and 170 pounds.
To Levine, the problem all boils
down to unrealistic images.
“They want these broad
shoulders and six-pack abs and tiny
waists. That’s what they see on
magazines,” she says. “But it’s a
physique unattainable for most
men, just like looking like Kate
Moss is unattainable for most
women.”
CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Lions’locks
6 Box to train
10 Important times
14 Actress Verdugo
15 “A_of Two
nitioc”
16 Kind of duck?
17 Wynonna’s
mom
18 Spoil
19 Fall garden?
20 Opera singer
Gluck
22 Gets
24 Puts on a
different case
28 Battery terminal
29 Concludes
30 Shirt size: abbr.
31 _-mo
32 Dreaded
mosquito
34 Preparing to
shave
39 Grade of wine
40 Wilson’s
thrushes
42 Lea low
43 Super sensitive
45 Muse of poetry
47 J. Lynne’s band
48 Pen
50 Ripened
51 Isolated
54 Verticality
56 Most packed
with evergreens
58 Foray
59 Make over
60 Berra of
baseball
62 Eucharist plate
66 Hosiery shade
67 Lunchtime
68 Raise spirits
69 Understands
70 Block up
71 Pizza order
DOWN
1 Chess pieces
2 Chicken/king
connector
3 Classical prefix
4 All together
5 Goes yachting
6 Pack trailer
7 Basque city
8 Rap-sheet
datum
9 Cloth tear
10 Mrs. Roosevelt
11 AM or FM
12 Change the law
13 Perceive
21 Wire measure
23 “Honor Thy
Father” author
24 Laugh at a joke,
e-9
25 January in Spair
26 Make sense
27 Closest one
31 Haggard novel
33 Slender and
graceful
35 Nervous
laughter
36 Mental picture
37 Music units
38 Merchandise
41 Italian author
Umberto
44 Grave
46 Tony of “The
Odd Couple”
49 Indeed
51 After, in Paris
52 Part
53 French writer
Gide
54 Bar accessory
55 Hollow tubes
57 *N_
61 Sentimental
drivel
63 Skater Babilonia
64 & so forth
65 Maiden name
indication
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ARIES You’re a person who’s usually
“what you see is what you get.”
Today, however, discretion is advised.
Don’t talk about your money, or lack
of it.
TAURUS Listen, and take into
consideration all the creative
suggestions you’re offered. And, of
course, it goes without saying, keep
complete control of the money.
GEMINI Others are taking note of
your willingness to perform difficult
tasks. The bad news is that you’ll get
more of the same. The good: it leads
to better things.
CANCER You’re such a gentle, loving
person that sometimes you get talked
into things. This time, remember the
rules and stick to them. Help
everyone stay on track.
LEO Review your reserves and figure
out what you’ve won and what you’ve
lost. You’ll find you can afford to
make your home more secure, and
more comfortable, too.
VIRGO Your mind has definite steel
trap qualities, but you’re not all
business. You’ve also got a fanciful
flair. Hang out with an imaginative
friend.
LIBRA Provide excellent service and
you’ll be rewarded beyond your
expectations. That’s always a nice
thing to have happen. Knock yourself
out, for others.
SCORPIO You’re so powerful, you
don’t have to tell people what you
want. They figure it out all by
themselves. The smart ones do,
anyway.
SAGITTARIUS It’s said that actions
speak louder than words. That’s
certainly the case now. You might as
well save your words altogether.
Listening ought to work, though.
CAPRICORN Your friends may figure
out the answer before you do, so stay
in touch. Working together, you’re
on to the next assignment in no
time.
AQUARIUS You’ve got a routine that
seems to be quite productive. You’ll
know when you get it set up right.
Your job will get easier, and you’ll
make more money.
PISCES You’re the one with the
imagination. Somebody else has more
experience, and another person’s good
at planning. You need them and they
need you.
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Roses Are Red, A Thorn for Every
Heart, Yesterday's Rising: 7 p.m.
New Brookland Tavern, 122 State
St. $8 advance, all ages.
Nick Smith with Ben Coleman: 8
p.m. Jammin’ Java, 1530 Main
Street Pay-what-you-want show.
“Vodka Lemon” 3, 7, 9 p.m.
Nickelodeon Theatre, 937 Main
Street.
“Van Wilder” 8 j.m. Russell House
Theatre.
THURSDAY
Rockwood, Sun Domingo, Josh
Pierce Group: 9 p.m. New
Brookland Tavern. $5 over, $7
under.
Beat Junction Project with Lyrical
Buddha, Tech Files, Ofeez, also
featuring the visual art of Vegas
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Gervais Street. $5, tickets only
available day of show.
Corner House with Jiggers: 9 p.m.
Jammin’ Java. Pay-what-you-want
show.
“Loaded Gun: Life, Death and
Dickinson” 7 p.m. Nickelodeon
Theatre.
“Vodka Lemon” 9 p.m. Nickelodeon
Theatre.
“Van Wilder” 8 p.m. Russell House
Theatre.
With A Thorn for Every
Heart and Yesterday’s
Rising. 7 p.m. at New
Brookland Tavern, $8
Roses
are Red
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I wouldn't drink that if i were you, haven't
you heard that milk can cause cancer or
something?
shut up.
^ yeah, milk doesn't make your
clothes stink.
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