Bulimia


 * Bulimia nervosa** is an eating disorder characterized by frequent episodes of binge eating, followed by frantic efforts to avoid gaining weight.

During an average **binge**, you may consume from 3,000 to 5,000 calories in one short hour. After you lost the food out of your system, panic sets in and you turn to drastic measure to "undo" the binge, such as taking ex-lax, inducing vomiting, or going for a ten-mile run. And during it, you feel increasingly out of control. Bulimia doesn't necessarily always involve purging-physically eliminating the food from your body by throwing up or using laxatives, enemas, or diuretics. Fasting, exercising to excess, or going on crash diets also qualifies as bulimia.

Effects of bulimia are: weight gain, abdominal pain, chronic sore throat, broken blood vessels in the eyes, weakness and dizziness, tooth decay and mouth sores.

__Someone with bulimia may use extreme measures to loose weight by: __
 * using diet pills

__Someone with bulimia may show signs of throwing up such as: __ __People with bulimia often have other mental health conditions including: __
 * going to the bathroom after eating
 * excersicing alot
 * swollen cheeks or jaw
 * calluses or scrapes on knuckles
 * teeth that look clear
 * broken blood vessels in the eyes
 * depression
 * anxiety
 * substance abuse

__What causes bulimia?__ **Culture**- women in the United States are constantly pressured to fit a certain ideal of beauty. **Families**- If you have a mother or sister with bulimia, you are more likely to also have bulimia. Parents who think looks are important or criticize their childrens bodies, are more likely to have a child with bulimia. **Life Changes**- traumatic events as well as stressful things can lead to bulimia. **Personality Traits**- if someone hates the way they look or they feel hopeless. **Biology**- genes, hormones, and chemicals in the brain may be factors. Bulimia is not genetic, because it is a eating disorder, involving just causing yourself just doing it. Not getting it from one of your parents. It is common in families, all depending on what the situation is. __ Treatments __ __ ﻿ __ 1. Monitor your eating, and make sure other people are watching how you are eating (checking up on you). 2. Focus on changing beliefs about weighing, dieting, and body shape. 3. Really focus on the depression that targeted the eating disorder in the first place.

Another eating disorder like bulimia is anorexia. Where in this case you just keep eating less and less, then in the end you just stop eating. [|Anorexia] __Bibliography__ [|treatments] [|medical symptoms] [|eating disorder] [|bulimia]