Eating Disorders

According to the website I found, Adolescence Issue: Eating Disorders, an eating

disorder is a severe disturbance in eating behavior, as well as unhealthy efforts to control

body weight and abnormal attitudes about one’s body and shape. The most commonly

known eating disorders are Bulimia Nervosa and Anorexia Nervosa.

What does it mean to be Bulimic or Anorexic? According to the website Vital

Information, Bulimic means you basically never stop eating. You just keep going and

going. One quote I found on the same web page is “ox like hunger of nervous origin.”

This rapid consumption of large amounts of food sometimes leads to vomiting or

purging. Those that are bulimic usually have twenty percent more body fat then those

that are not bulimic. The symptoms for Bulimia start at any age from early adolescence

to forty years of age. This becomes very serious in the late adolescence.

Anorexia usually appears in early or middle adolescence. This happens when a

person begins to starve themselves and exercises compulsively. The weight of the

person drops and their bodies become unhealthy. The person wi

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