Answer:
Although many believe that eating disorders are relatively new, documentation from the Middle Ages indicates willful dieting leading to self-starvation in female saints who fasted to achieve purity.
In the late 1800s, doctors in England and France described young women who apparently used self-starvation to avoid obesity.
It was not until the 1960s, however, that anorexia nervosa was established as a mental disorder.
Bulimia nervosa was first described as a distinct syndrome in 1979.
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