What is Bulimia?
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Bulimia Nervosa, an eating disorder where people (usually females) engage in activities such as self-induced vomiting, compulsive exercise or laxative/diuretic abuse after a "binge" (consuming excessive amounts of food at one time)
Health risks include
electrolyte imbalances
tearing of the esophogus
internal bleeding
malnutrition
vitamin deficiency
hair loss
lowered body tempature
Bulimia is an eating disorder, dork.
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bulimia is an eating disorder kind of like
She has been in rehab for several weeks because she has bulimia.
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basically, the only true staple is that we binge, then purge in some way after - be it vomiting(which can be done MANY different ways), starving or exercising aggressively after or taking things like laxatives and diuretics.
i would have added bad body image to that, but some people who are not bulimic or anorexic have problems with their images too
everything else changes for every person.
we all have different causes, triggers, binge foods and amounts.
also, not all bulimics and anorexics are skinny. it could be the 300 pound mom, the teenage boy with a little extra chub or it could be the bony 11 year old in grade 5.
bulimia does not discriminate against weight, age, gender, class or race
usually depression goes along with bulimia, whether your depressed when its starts, or after you realize your in too deep.
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An eating dissorder effecting mostly young women. They eat alot of food then make them selves vomit. they loose lots of weight and have health problems. Parents try to blame it on all the models andactresses that are so thin. but its more then that, these people constantly feel like they aren't good enough and need to change themselves its usually caused by something thats happened to them also something their parents and influences mihgt have done or do.
She's in rehab for bulimia.
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An eating disorder, common especially among young women of normal or nearly normal weight, that is characterized by episodic binge eating and followed by feelings of guilt, depression, and self-condemnation. It is often associated with measures taken to prevent weight gain, such as self-induced vomiting, the use of laxatives, dieting, or fasting.
Susan used to weight 150 pounds and after she lost 100 pounds she became skinnier than normal average weight of average and started having bulimia after losing all that weight.
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twice the taste, zero times the calories.
An eating disorder characterized by puking up previously eaten food.
After seeing Nicole Richie in a bikini, all the bulimic girls stopped throwing up, and decided that bulimia definitely did not make people better looking.
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A horrible eating disorder in which the person, usually a young girl, eats large ammounts of food then feels bad and finds some way to "
Many bulimics are recovering anorexics. They've had to deal with denying themselves their favorite food for so long that now they don't have the will power neccisary to do it any more, so they gorge themselves and puke, exersive, or use laxitives to get rid of it afterwards.
Like anorexics, bulimics sometimes do what they do to feel in control. But they do so without the same self control that anorexics have, and bulimics are harder to catch with more severe symptoms then anorexics.
Amy had only been home from
Anorexia rehab for two days, when her mom found her barfing up an entire cake. She's checked back into rehab for Bulimia now.
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