Bulimia is a very serious psychological eating disorder. Bulimia is also called bulimia nervosa. It is characterized by episodes of binge wating followed by inappropriate methods of weight control (purging). Inappropiate methods of wieght control, include vomiting, fasting, enemas, excessive use of laxatives and diuretics, or complulsive exercises. Shape and weight concerns are also characteristics of bulimia. A binge is an episode where an individual wats a very large amount of food than most people would in a similar situation. Binge eating is not a response to intense hunger. It is usually a response to depression, stress, or self esteem issues.
During the binge episode, the individual experiences a loss of control. The main topics dicussed are the symptoms, causes, effects, treatments, what you can do to help get bulimia under control, risk factors, stress, and peer pressure, and who is most likely to develop bulimia.
People with bulimia can look perfectly normal.
Most of them are of normal wieght, and some may be overwieght. Women with bulimia tend to be high achievers. It is often difficult to determine whether a person is suffering from bulimia. This occurs because bingeing and purging is often done in secert. Also, individuals suffering from bulimia often deny thier condition.
There are alot of different symptoms you cant get with having bulimia. You tend to have frequent binge eating ( eating very large amounts of food in a short period of time). Eating uncontrollably, purging, water pills, strict dieting, fasting, excercising to prevent weight gain, and judging oneself mainly by body shape and weight.
There are alot of noticable signs of bulimia. The most visual ones are, using the bathroom frequently after meals, loss of appetie, weight gain or loss or 10 or more punds, swollen glands, hair loss, and tooth decay. There are...
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I must say that I have to agree with you. Stress and peer pressure are a big influence on the way you feel about you body. Students often respond to stressful school and home situations by eating too much or too little food, a pattern that can, in time, turn into a clinical eating disorder. But other factors can also dispose children and teens to eating-related problems. One contributing factorsis a teen culture that reveres supermodel thinness and influences gurls to strive for impossibly low body mass and weight. Young American women have been obsessed with beauty and perfection for years, but more recently it seems to have become the root of all physical evil. Young women have become fixated with perfection to the point of going as far as to starve themselves to death. Hollywood celebrities only make-up a small fraction of the American population, so why is it that young American females believe that looking like the perfect "sexy female" persona is the way one is supposed to look like?
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