Eating Disorders

...ba href=/eating disorder/a/bs is on the rise, with cultural influences like chiseled rappers, metrosexual male models and even animated heroes sharing some blame.

The National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders estimates that a million men suffer from ba href=/eating disorder/a/bs – one in every eight Americans with such a disorder.

“With males, we’re still at a stage that we’re not on the alert,” said Dr.

Steven Levenkron, an ba href=/eating disorder/a/b specialist who has treated anorexics for 34 years.

One reason for the underdiagnosis: Male anorexics often overexercise more than they undereat.

Thus, rather than refusing meals, they might even eat what appears to be a normal diet, but because they spend hours every day exercising, the net effect is that they will lose weight, radically and dangerously.

As a high school athlete, Gary Grahl practically lived in the gym and served himself dinners of vegetables with a “dressing” of tomato soup.

“I would exercise constantly.

I’d get up at 3:30 in the morning and exercise before school.

I’d work out after school, and again before bed,” said Grahl, now 37.

Even when the 5-foot-9 baseball, basketball and football player hit 103 pounds, he obsessed about foods.

Though he was hungry all the time and loved food, Grahl always said he was full.

“A person with an ba href=/eating disorder/a/b will always say they’re full, but I was always hungry.

I liked feeling hunger because it felt like ...

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