Bulimia Nervosa is an illness in which a person binges on food or has frequent episodes of overeating and feels a loss of control. In result the person uses different methods‚ such as vomiting or laxatives to prevent weight gain. Many people with bulimia also have anorexia nervosa. A bulimic person can consume as much as 3‚400 calories in about an hour‚ and as much as 20‚000 calories in eight hours. People with bulimia know they have a problem and are afraid of their lack of ability to stop eating
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Bolanle Soyombo Cox AP Lit A2 April 18‚ 2012 Bulimia Nervosa: Argument Although bulimia nervosa can be treated in multiple fashions‚ there is a specific treatment that is proven to be the most effective in not only bulimia nervosa‚ but also other anxiety related disorders. This effective treatment is an specific form of short term psychotherapy. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is productive in both reducing the amount of times one may purge in a day and diminishing the entire disorder altogether;
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Bulimia Nervosa [also known as Bulimia] is a very serious and dangerous eating disorder. The disorder can be describe as bingeing and then followed by purging or a person who eats a large amount of food in short periods of time and then vomits after eating to prevent on gaining the weight cause by the food. There is different ways of going about ways to prevent the weight gain‚ making oneself throw up‚ taking pills‚ or laxatives which will increase how fast the food will move through your body‚ exercising
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Health Eating Disorder Bulimia Nervosa What Are Eating Disorders? A person with an eating disorder may have started out just eating smaller or larger amounts of food than usual‚ but at some point‚ the urge to eat less or more spirals out of control. Eating disorders are very complex‚ and despite scientific research to understand them‚ behavioral and social understandings of these are still unknown. The two main types of eating disorders are anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa. Eating disorders frequently
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Bulimia Nervosa Comparison Between Males and Females Melissa Eblen‚ Mary Gillison‚ Anna Hardy‚ Crystal Kistler‚ and Jennifer Moreno PSY/315 November 24‚ 2012 Doctor Williams Bulimia Nervosa Comparison Between Males and Females Conclusion: This hypothesis research was conducted to determine if females exhibit a higher percentage of eating disorders than males because our society encourages females to adhere to a higher standard than men when it comes to their outward appearance. For
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Bulimia nervosa is defined as two or more episodes of binge eating (rapid consumption of a large amount of food‚ up to 5‚000 calories) every week for at least three months. The binges are sometimes followed by vomiting or purging and may alternate with compulsive exercise and fasting. The symptoms can develop at any age from early adolescence to 40‚ but usually become clinically serious in late adolescence. Bulimia is not as dangerous to health as anorexia‚ but it has many unpleasant physical
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Health Consequences of Bulimia Nervosa The recurrent binge-and-purge cycles of bulimia can affect the entire digestive system and can lead to electrolyte and chemical imbalances in the body that affect the heart and other major organ functions. Some of the health consequences of bulimia nervosa include: • Electrolyte imbalances that can lead to irregular heartbeats and possibly heart failure and death. Electrolyte imbalance is caused by dehydration and loss of potassium‚ sodium and chloride from
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Bulimia Nervosa Alicia Lang-Goseland February 12‚ 2012 Abstract Little do bulimics know that what they are doing really is a big deal and is affecting them not just socially‚ but they are damaging their bodies physically and emotionally in ways they could not even imagine. For whatever reason they have decided to lean towards bulimia‚ they don’t understand that it is an unrealistic and very damaging habit to form. Vomiting their food up doesn’t mean they will lose weight‚ but they will definitely
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Bulimia Nervosa is a deadly disorder. It originates from the Greek word “boulima‚” meaning ravenous hunger‚ and the word Nervosa meaning nervous‚ or with nervous habit. Bulimia is an emotional disorder involving distortion of body image and an obsessive desire to lose weight‚ in which bouts of extreme overeating are followed by depression and self-induced vomiting‚ purging‚ or fasting. Bulimia Nervosa is an extremely overlooked eating disorders‚ provided a large amount of bulimics are usually slightly
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Counseling Women Diagnosed with Bulimia Nervosa Student ID: 18104894 CNS ED 6000 November 12‚ 2012 Counseling Women Diagnosed With Bulimia Nervosa Katie Andrews Abstract This literature review will introduce bulimia nervosa and discuss research that pertains to counseling women who seek treatment for this particular eating disorder. The information included will be helpful for counselors and those seeking help for bulimia or for a loved one. This paper addresses matters that cause and
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