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The ideas and opinions of advertisements appearing in this Sarah Niles Managing News Editors Fashion Forward Columnist publication are not necessarily those of The Review staff or the university. Katie Rogers, Brittany Talarico Larissa Cruz ' J1t December 4, 2007 3 Exercise abuse runs down dangerous path Experts·say excessive workouts are a type of eating disorder BY BRITTANY TALARICO was not good enough, and I should have some type of eating disorder. Managing News Editor not bother going at all," she said. "In "I don't think the rate is neces Throughout high school, sopho my mind a balance of everything sarily higher, but awareness of the more Marla Cicchino kept a daily wasn't good. service is a little bit higher," Basma journal. For many adolescent girls, a "I felt like if I didn't go to the said. journal is a place to record intimate ~ for _two hours it wasn't worth She said because exercise has thoughts about boys, friends or fami lt. a healthy appeal, students do not ly ·issues, a cathartic release from The Renfrew Center Foundation understand it can actually have reality. Cicchino was keeping a is a nationally renowned, inpatient harmful effects. different secret, however. Her journal facility in Philadelphia devoted to "I see students who think documented the rigid schedule of her fighting the effects eating disorders because they don't physically, self daily life ~ a life consumed by have on individuals and their fami induce vomit, they do not have an obsessive calorie counting, compul lies. Kelly Pedrotty, exercise coordi eating disorder," Basma said. "I sive exercising and planned binges. nator at Renfrew, said the center have to remind them that taking Cicchino said she suffered from offers an exercise program and its laxatives or over-exercising is a an eating disorder for most of high main goal is to help women in recov form ofbulimia." school and her freshman year at the ery from an eating disorder develop a Any type of unhealthy method university. She was bulimic and healthy relationship with exercise. used to compensate for extra calo over-exercised as one method of "We do exercise intervention," ries falls under an eating disorder, purging unwanted calories. P.edrotty said. "We teach women how she said. "I was working out twice a day to use exercise as a tool in the recov Basma said she typically sees in two different gyms," she said. "I ery process rather than as a symp students in the begimling of their would go to one gym in the morning tom." eating disorder or after they have and run for at least an hour and then She said when she first started received more extensive treatment. THE REVIEW/Ricky Berl meet with a trainer at another gym in working at Renfrew she noticed the One of the things she asks students Compulsive exercising is classified as a symptom of an eating disorder. the afternoon. women there had an unhealthy rela is how much activity they partake "I wanted to exercise as much as tionship with exercise. Previously in in on a daily basis. a brief idea or screening or assess "I don't know if it is going to get I could." the exercise field, there were a lot of "If I need to, when someone is ment about their condition and con a specific, diagnosed term later on," Over-exercising fueled getting professionals against using exercise underweight, I may ask him or her to cerns. If we deem there is an issue, she said. "Over-exercising is up there thinner, Cicchino said. in recovery for many reasons. This stop exercising all together until a we can direct them to seek interven with taking laxatives. There are dif "I thought if I worked out more, triggered Pedrotty and her partner, healthy weight is reached," she said. tion at places like Student Health ferent things you can do to get rid of I would look better and t:pen every Rachel Calogero, to research exercis The promoted issue of beauty is Services and the Center for those calories." one would compliment me," she ing as part of the recovery process for not only about looking thin anymore, Counseling and Student Olivieri said compulsive exer said. "Control was a big aspect of it. eating disorders. Basma said. Development." . cising is becoming more common on I felt if like I could get skinnier that Renfrew is one of the first eating "It is not enough just to be thin," Nutt said she envisions exercise college campuses. would fix everything. disorder facilities to develop a struc she said, "but you have to be thin and bulimia within the context of the "I think it is becoming more "In the end that wasn't the tured, supervised exercise program, toned." other main eating disorders. prevalent because you are on our answer." Pedrotty said. The program is volun Basma said compulsive exercis "When we educate on it, we own in college, and you are in control Cicchino said she would con tary and on average women stay for ing is not restricted to the college really don't focus on it as a separate of what you put in your body and sume minimal amounts of calories approximately 4 to 6 weeks. aged group and many people feel · condition," she.said. "We focus on it have many gyms around campus," and. work out two to three hours per "Our program is supervised so over-exercising is healthy because more in the context of other disor- she said. "[The college] environment day. When she began to feel really the women are doing it in a structured exercise is heavily promoted in ders." constantly re-enforces the mindset of hungry, she would organize planned environment," she said. "We are today's society. In the DSM, non-purging-type controlling your life." binges. exercising with them, and we are "When I worked in fitness cen bulimia is described as an episode of NEDAW will be held from Feb. "I would pick out the restaurants showing them proper form and tech ters there were women who were in bulimia nervosa in which the person 25 to Feb. 28, Olivieri said. The I wanted to go to," she said. nique. there for hours each day," she said. has used other inappropriate com month of March is National Eating "Everything was planned. You're "One of the most important "Exercise is seen has a healthy thing pensatory behaviors such as fasting Disorder Awareness Month which eating one thing and already thinking aspects of the program is to encour so how bad can it be if you're over or excessive exercise, but has not correlates with the timing of about the next thing you're going to age patients to listen to their bodies." exercising?" regularly engaged in self-induceti NEDAW. get. Pedrotty said there are many Cicchino said she came to vomiting or the misuse of laxatives, "The first night we are having "[What] one of my therapists at terms used for over-exercising Wellspring with her best friend diuretics or enemas, she said. Elizabeth Berkley, Jessie from home would tell me to do is put X's including exercise bulimia and because she wanted to continue get An individual with anorexia "Saved by the Bell," as .our keynote on my hand after everything I ate so anorexia athletica; however, current ting help.