Reply #67: Googling for studies and using the word "control"

[KurtNYC]

gets me way too many results because in most studies there is a "control" group (different sense of the word). The link I used in my prior post mentioned control but that is more of an observation and not something which they cite as backed up by a specific study(ies).

The best I can do right now is the clinical definition of anorexia. Subjects must meet four criteria. The first is:

Refusal to maintain body weight at or above a minimally normal weight for age and height (e.g., weight loss leading to maintenance of body weight less than 85% of that expected; or failure to make expected weight gain during period of growth, leading to body weight less than 85% of that expected).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anorexia_nervosa

And there I focus on the word "refusal" which implies a passive aggressive kind of control (albeit over one's own body). Perhaps I can find analysis of aggregated case histories which back up the idea. Of the Google links I did look at, many include phrases like "my weight was the only thing in my life that I could control."