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Bulimia
Bulimia (boo-LEE-mee-uh) is an eating disorder in which a person eats compulsively and then eliminates the food through self- induced vomiting or with laxatives. People who have bulimia are afraid of gaining weight, of not being able to stop binging and purging, and are often depressed. They may suffer from stomach cramps, irregular periods, dizziness, sore throats, and sinus infections.
Bulimia can lead to serious medical problems including inflammation of the esophagus, low potassiu ...
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Bulimia may have a biological origin
Increased serotonin activity is found in brain makeup of recovering bulimics
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Eating disorders in adolescents: Principles of diagnosis and treatment
Adolescent Medicine Committee, Canadian Paediatric Society (CPS)
Paediatrics & Child Health 1998;3(3):189-92
Reference No. AM96-04
Revision in progress January 2005
Index of position statements from the Adolescent Health Committee
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COPING WITH BULIMIA
Diana K. Weiss, Ph.D.
Melissa was a bright, attractive, popular teenager with everything going for her. People didn't know she secretly ate huge amounts of food, and vomited it wherever she could: the toilet at home or friend's houses; the garbage disposal; paper bags she would throw out of her car; and even bathrooms in all-you-can-eat restaurants. Her heart dropped when her boyfriend told her that he knew she was overeating and vomiting. He insisted she see ...
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Introducing Bulimia Nervosa
Dr Peter Rowan MBBS.MRCPsych.
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Bulimia Nervosa is an illness that is most commonly found in girls of later adolescence and early adulthood. It is very rarely found in men. It is characterised by episodes of binge eating; eating large quantities of food in a short time. This behaviour may be very severe with enormous quantities of food, most typically carbohydrates being consumed. To pre ...
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July 5, 1997
Community study traces bulimia's origins
by B. Bower
Young women afflicted with bulimia nervosa careen between feast and famine. Frantic binges of food consumption alternate with fasting, self-induced vomiting, and other efforts to shed weight.
Many potential culprits have been proposed to explain why 1 to 3 percent of females in many Western nations develop bulimia as teenagers or young adults. But a new study, which takes a rare look at this eating disorder among women ...
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The Physiology and Psychology of Bulimia
Bulimia is a disorder centered around an individual’s obsession with food and weight. This obsession involves eating large quantities of food, feeling guilty about the food consumption, and taking drastic measures to prevent caloric/fat absorption. Measures vary with each individual and include one or all of the following: forced vomiting, abuse of laxatives or diuretics, or excessive exercise. This disease affects one to three percent of adolesc ...
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