Self-induced vomiting, dizziness, starvation and obsessive exercise.

Daily, nearly 20 percent of college students subject themselves to this torture. These symptoms are indicative of eating disorders, according to the National Eating Disorders Association.

Nearly three-quarters of those suffering from these disorders, especially males, will never get treated. In a survey collected by the University’s Health Promotion Department, no males reported having been treated for an eating disorder, compared to nearly 2 percent of females.

However, Kelly Case-Simonson, a licensed psychologist working in Counseling and Psychiatric Services, said it is not unusual to see males with eating-related problems.

“There is a huge difference between the number of men — and people in general — who have eating disorders and the number that actually get help for them,” Case-Simonson said.

Although men account for only 10 percent of all eating disorder cases, “there is some indication that dangerous binge eating is more common in males than in females,” she said.

Angie Ruhlen, nutrition services coordinator at the Health Center, also said men could suffer from eating disorders.

“Eating disorders are more prevalent in women,” she said. “But there are men who also struggle and need to get appropriate help.”

Case-Simonson said that a combination of psychological, biological, interpersonal and social factors could result in an eating disorder in both women and men.

“In men, the precipitating factors are the same, but they don’t recognize them as a serious problem because there is a cultural idea that men don’t get this illness,” she said. “This problem is more prevalent in the homosexual community and in sports that require male athletes to become preoccupied with excessive weight gain or loss.”