Not for women only A growing number of today’s men are developing eating disorders. Some of them aspire to a very lean body shape, such as that displayed by a new breed of ultra-thin male models (top), and develop anorexia nervosa or bulimia nervosa. Others want the ultramuscular look displayed by bodybuilders (bottom) and develop a new kind of eating disorder called muscle dysmorphobia. The men in this latter category inaccurately consider themselves to be scrawny and small and keep striving for a “perfect” body through excessive weight lifting and abuse of steroids.