According to a recent story, "A new phenomenon has surfaced on campuses in the form of what media and medical professionals are calling drunkorexia, which is a combination of binge drinking and existing eating disorders.

"Students, in an effort to keep their weight under control or, in some cases, balance their checkbook, limit their food calorie intake during the day to 500 or fewer or purge to compensate for the alcohol calories they plan to consume later that night."

Do you know anyone who has this problem? Have you yourself carried out symptoms of "drunkorexia"? Is the behavior dangerous in your eyes or is it simply a common sense way to approach social life on campus?

And most importantly, how can this problem be stopped?

Hi, my name is Marci Rasmussen, I am an alcoholic.  I always binged drank and thought is was exceptable.  I was being part of the crowd and thought this was how to have fun...had I known or ever been warned that I was to become an alcoholic, I may have been a little more wise.  I now have been sober for 9 years, but it took me until the age of 40 to realize, I didn't drink normal.  Normal drinkers, don't binge.  They have a glass of wine with dinner or a (one) or maybe two drinks when socializing.  That is normal, 4 or more is not, it never is.  It lowers your inhibitions, it puts all our children at great risks, risks of Drunk Driving, Sex, Rape even murder.  This is not a subject that should be taken lightly.  We all know better, the problem is, there are a lot of "functional" alcoholics that are mentors to our children.  Sad, but true.  I now choose to be a mentor of someone that lives a full, happy, functional life without alcohol.  I wish that for all our children, mine thankful has made the choice not to drink, not to take the chance, that he to, might go down that dark road.  Much love and prayers.  

Wow. This just screams dangerous. As if it's not bad enough to drink excessively anyway, drinking on an empty stomach can put you at a greater risk for alcohol poisoning.