Thinly disguised III

　　Under-eating, avoidance of food and voerdoing the e xercise routine are becoming major problems among young girls today, o acknowledges Dr virsen ruparel, a mumbai -based family medical practitioner.

　　O:in an attempt to look thin, some girls will go to ridiculous limits. Some go to two different aerobic cla sses in the same day while others pop pills and go on c razy fad diets in an attempt to lose weight in a hurry.

　　O:agrees fitness instructor and personal trainer, m ickey mehta.

　　O:the-being-thin-carze has reached an obsessive lev el not just in the indian fashion industry but also amo ng the general population. It cause concern because it' s more concentrated on being thin than on being healthy and fit.

　　As young indian girls get more anxious to emulate t he flab-free skinny figures they see as ideal role mode ls in the many images that surround them on television, big screen and in printed materials, eating disorders s uch as anorexia nervosa and bulimia are on the rise. Th ough there are no studies in india, neuropsychiatrists like Dr Rajesh parikh say there's been a dramatic-incre ase in the number of people presenting themselves with anorexia symptoms, which include severe weight loss and an intense fear of putting on weight. "Ten years ago, i saw only a handful of anorexia cases. Over the last dec ade, there's been a ten-fold increase in the number of anoexia patients who vistit me", he says "Dr parikn, wh o feels that many more casses go unreported and many ot hers ramain on the brink of the disease.

　　O：they will exercise real hard, constantly weigh th emselves on the weighing scale and ignore their diet. T he general thinking is that if i eat I will put on weig ht, so they don't just allow themselves to feel hungry.