Bulimia is characterized by people who experience episodes of binge eating or feeling a lack control over an eating episode and recurrent inappropriate behaviors to prevent weight gain twice a week for at least 3 months. Many boys and girls suffer today from eating disorders, which include bulimia, anorexia and binge eating. All of these [...]
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Bulimia and heart disease
Bulimia is also called bulimia nervosa and is characterized by recurrent episodes of binge eating followed by efforts to prevent weight gain such as self-induced vomiting, laxatives, medications, fasting or extreme exercise. Other characteristics include depression, constipation, fatigue, dehydration, irregular heartbeat and damaged teeth and gums from repeated vomiting. It may be difficult to tell [...]
Does Hollywood Cause Anorexia?
Riding life in the fast lane….a world of lights and camera, parties and glitter. The paparazzi swarming around every aspect of your life. You have to look good because you are constantly in the public eye and you know you will be judged. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, they say, but the [...]
Anorexia and Emotional Health
Emotional health appears to be clearly where the major development of anorexia nervosa lies. It is because of their emotional health that brings them to this point in the beginning and because of their emotional health that keeps it going. It is a very real sickness that involves their obsessive thoughts of being thin, low [...]
When to Take an Anorexia Patient to Hospital
Anorexia nervosa, or AN as it is also known, is an extremely severe and potentially fatally psychiatric disorder. It is often exhibited in the young female, but can also appear in the somewhat older young males. Unfortunately because the number of men who are afflicted are significantly less than females this problems often remains undiagnosed [...]
Long-Term Side Effects of Bulimia Nervosa
Bulimia nervosa is an eating disorder that is characterized by binge eating and then inappropriate manners of preventing weight gain such as purging (induced vomiting) or excessive exercise. Thousands of Americans suffer from eating disorders each year. There is an increased prevalence of eating disorders in western cultures. People who experience bulimia feel a need [...]
After effects of anorexia
Anorexia nervosa is an eating disorder that affects mostly girls and women with the majority in their teens and early twenties when it develops. With strong therapy and long-term programs many of these girls have a chance of recovering from this psychological disorder that drives them to become thinner and thinner while not recognizing the [...]
Research studies on anorexia
Anorexia nervosa is a psychiatric disorder that involves the inability to eat due to fear of excess weight gain. A person with this disorder is typically a young female between the ages of 15 and 23, although studies have included all age groups and males as well. The anorexic has a distorted image and even [...]
how to talk to your doctor about bulimia
Bulimia is an eating disorder that is characterized by binge eating and frequent inappropriate means of preventing weight gain which include excessive exercise or self-induced vomiting. Many times a person suffering from bulimia is of normal weight or even a bit overweight. Their perception of their body image is altered and they see themselves as [...]
The History of Bulimia
Bulimia is an eating disorder that involves more than strict dieting and a unrealistic body image. Characteristics of people suffering from this disorder also include binging on too much food at least 2 times each week and subsequent inappropriate ways of trying to prevent weight gain. People with bulimia will use laxatives, induced vomiting and [...]
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