eating disorders in SFF?

[kate_nepveu]

Are there any science fiction or fantasy novels that contain eating disorders, besides Buckell's Sly Mongoose?

Comments

[redbird]

It's "The Evening, the Morning, and the Night." The diet that's necessary to control the disease is so extreme as to create social ostracism: basically, eating any normal food is a medical problem, and the special diet involves food that is obviously medical diet food (rather than, say, the people being able to tell classmates or coworkers that they don't want to trade sandwiches, or brought a salad from home today).

[kate_nepveu]

Huh. I take it that the disease itself is stigmatized? Because otherwise I'm not quite convinced of the plausibility.

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

Yes, the disease causes self-mutilation and occasionally homicidal psychosis if uncontrolled by diet, so I found the stigmatization very plausible.

[kate_nepveu]

Goodness, yes, that would do it.