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| | Suzanna McGee: Newsletter |
 | | Pope and colleagues studied bodybuilders so preoccupied with getting bigger muscles that their self-image is grossly warped. |
| | When Dr. Pope, the lead investigator, reported his findings in a 1997 issue of Psychosomatics, he dubbed the disorder "muscle dysmorphia." It is, essentially, an obsession with being muscular. |
| | The book (revised every 7 years) has a long-standing, general category called "body dysmorphia." As subtext explains, sufferers are obsessed with body parts such as the face, hands, feet, or nose. |
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