Just before I begin, if you click the source link for this story - beware of a graphic image.
I've posted before, about the stupiditiy alcohol seems to instill in otherwise everyday people before [link] (yes, just alcohol itself - not human nature, we as Muslims are proof that humans do not need alcohol.) but the stupidity just seems to be hitting new lows with every single news report that is posted.
The most disturbing thing I think I have read in a long, long time is that a lot of university aged women in Australia are substituting their kilojoule intake from food in favour of alcohol. to food, in that they are skipping meals to be able to drink heavily and stay thin. It's a simple result of the mixture of peer pressure to stay thin, and the peer pressure to drink.
May Allah swt guide them, and us all. Ameen.
Drinking in itself is bad enough - but a trend like this, is just ridiculously stupid.
Drunkorexia: girls starving to drink more
IT'S a new dangerous drinking fad dubbed "drunkorexia" and gripping NSW -- women starving themselves so they can booze and not gain weight.
Medics say the growing craze is most common among university students faced with the challenge of staying slim and peer-pressure drinking.
Research shows substance abuse like binge drinking co-exists with eating disorders - 50 per cent of women with eating disorders will have a drinking problem.
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