“…According to the profile, college women engage in a wider range of clinically significant behaviors than that which could be captured by atypical anorexia, low-threshold bulimia or binge eating, or purging disorder alone. 12,[14][15][16][17][18][19] For example, in one study, Schwitzer et al 15 found that among college women with EDNOS, 83% reported moderate eating concerns, 79% binged periodically, 13% severely restricted eating on occasions, 86% engaged in compensatory exercise, 17% vomited, and 5% used laxatives. Further, they experienced a combination of weight fluctuations, drive for thinness and body dissatisfaction, and low self-esteem and perfectionism that is not fully described by the cognitive and affective features of the anorexia diagnosis alone, bulimia diagnosis alone, Binge Eating Disorder alone, or their subthreshold counterparts characterized by Other Specified Eating Disorder.…”