WHAT'S EATING YOU?

The Boston Globe lifts the cover on a less hyped subject: male eating disorders.

Christopher R. Skarinka had heard of eating disorders, of course. Every college student had by the early 2000s, when Skarinka started school. But nearly every college kid, like most everyone else, also thought of eating disorders as a female problem. Not a problem for a buff, 6-foot-5-inch guy like himself.

Yet by the time Skarinka graduated from Harvard, in 2007, he was addicted to making himself purge. He wasn’t worried about his weight. He just liked the sense of control that purging gave him.

Looking back now, Skarinka says he was deeply unhappy. He coped with the stress of a high-pressure school and then a higher-pressure investment banking job by exerting control over one of the few things he could control: what he ate.