From: utzoo!watmath!watarts!bernie
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Title: Re: Karen Carpenter
Article-I.D.: watarts.1717
Posted: Wed Mar  2 18:21:30 1983
Received: Thu Mar  3 00:29:58 1983
Reply-To: bernie@watarts (Bernie Roehl)
References: cwruecmp.522

I'm not sure if either your question or this answer belong in net.jokes,
but since I don't know what other newsgroups you subscribe to I'll answer
here.  "Anorexia Nervosa" is *not* self-inflicted starvation; it is an
emotional disorder one symptom of which is a desire to lose weight.  It is
particularly common among adolescents, and is rarely so extreme as it was
in Karen Carpenter's case.  She did *not* want to die, any more than a
compulsive over-eater *wants* to be fat or an alcoholic *wants* to be an
alcoholic.