More than half of all female college students are overly concerned about their weight, health officials report, and 20 percent of them have severe eating disorders, according to a report issued five years ago.
     A study or 682 women at a Midwestern university a decade ago showed that two-thirds of the women admitted being so concerned about their weight that they resorted to "unhealthy behavior" to control it. They took appetite control pills and many used laxatives and resorted to self-induced vomiting. Most skipped meals and went on diets.
     A counter-movement has developed that urges young women to accept their bodies and to turn away from the advertisements that show models who are unusually thin. The average model is thinner than 95 percent of the female population.
     Obtain the latest information about weight control through an Internet search and use it as the basis of a survey of women on the campus.