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Experts have warned that young women are avoiding eating during the day to save calories to go out drinking at night. The phenomena knows as “Drunkorexia” has been found to apply to the likes of people in universities who are feeling pressurised to fit in and as a result are skipping meals so that they can go out to socialise in the evenings, without the thought of the possibility that they may put on weight.
U.S. researchers at the University of Missouri who questioned college student found 16 per cent of those surveyed reported restricting calories to 'save them' for drinking.
But the practice is three times more common among women than men, with women reporting they want to lose weight and spend less money getting drunk.
The problem has been documented in American universities but it is feared to be becoming worse in Britain with young women feeling pressure to drink heavily yet stay slim.
However lack of food in their system ensures they get drunk quicker and raises the risk of them passing out with all the dangers that entails.
Denying themselves two biscuits would allow them to drink three vodka and diet colas without fear of putting on weight, while skipping the 700 calories of spaghetti bolognese gives them the freedom to indulge in four or five alcopops.
More than a million Britons suffer from eating disorders, with women between 14 and 25 at greatest risk. In serious cases they can be fatal.
Recent studies have shown links between eating disorders and alcohol abuse, with up to a third of bulimics struggling with alcohol or drugs and 36 per cent of women receiving treatment for alcohol abuse also confessing to eating problems.
It is such a shame that there isn’t any sense of control amongst the youth who choose to drink these days in terms of limits an being generally sensible! as I have stated previously, I’m 18, I do not drink, do not wish to or shall even consider it. If it means not fitting into certain situations then quite frankly I wouldn’t want to be in that situation and would therefore remove myself from it. I seemingly received a backlash after expressing my opinions previously at not wanting to sip away my “mental faculties” with some idiotic individual saying:
“as a consequence of ADULT human interaction alcohol is sometimes involved. Like most things that are bad for you a sense of self-constraint is required. This is what keeps us from snatching candy from babies.
You cannot criticize what you don't understand.
Live a bit first and then criticise the lives of others, see how you feel after a 50+ hour working week with a wife, kids and bills to pay and see if you still want an orange juice to unwind.”
Of course, I am clearly far superior to this individual that is seemingly unable to cope with everyday situations without having to open up one bottle cork after another. Indeed I agree that alcohol is sometimes involved with Adult interaction, that’s society and you could say having the odd glass of wine around the dinner table is even symbolic, self-constraint is required yet of course we all don’t need to follow trends. Choices are something which we all have, some of us make more wrong ones than others... the social acceptance, however, of those that choose not to consume alcohol is bitter and disillusioned. Are you saying that you cannot live your life without turning to a can of Fosters, a bottle of Red or white or even a bottle of the finest wine on the market? though of course I expect people that have such a bigoted attitude wouldn’t be that much of a fine wine connoisseur. So indeed I do not need to understand to criticise, I can observe, I have experiences and I have made a decision.
Whether or not you are working a 50+ hour week must you come straight home to the bottle? again of course you can have a good old sip without automatically being an alcoholic but for goodness sake you must have some self control as to whether or not you even need it in your house! I am quite happy sticking to the fizzy stuff, that of Dandelion & Burdock for one!
The fact that we are in a society were people think they NEED to drink in order to be socially accepted is not only saddening but tragic. The study has shown people are NOT eating so they can just take int he calories from the booze, that is appalling and quite frankly it is a problem which something needs to be done about. Society is somewhat twisted into blindness, if it wasn’t for some people who didn’t have my mindset the society would be even more of a shambolic state and it is no wonder we have such a problem with the stereotypical problematic youth. Social drinkers do indeed continue to enjoy your Echo Falls or whatever else you get the pallet “thrill” from. If I want a drink, however, it shall be anything but. Not for everybody, but that is my choice of which I am entitled to have and to make. Of course I am in a minority, which is completely understandable... if you need to rely on it or feel as if you need it however, then I’m afraid the jokes on you sir!
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