WEDNESDAY, Feb. 16 — The way women draw themselves may help reveal whether they have an eating disorder, researchers suggest.
They found that women with anorexia or bulimia draw themselves with different characteristics than women without eating disorders.
The study, by Israeli researchers, included 36 women with anorexia or bulimia and 40 women with no eating disorder, half of them overweight and half normal weight. The women were asked to draw themselves, and the researchers found various differences between the groups in four areas:
Women with anorexia or bulimia tended to portray themselves with a larger neck, a disconnected neck or no neck.
The mouth was more emphasized by women with anorexia or bulimia.
Depictions of wider thighs were more common among participants with…
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