Bulimia

            "Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the fattest one of all?" Fairy tales are not true ,nor is the image we see in the mirror everyday. Thousands of people look in the mirror and hate what they see. When we look in the mirror, we see what this eating disorder wants us to see, not our true self. Many people think of an eating disorder is being unhealthy desire for a perfect body. Eating disorders are not about pride and not really about weight. Eating disorder affect people of all ages. Bulimia is a growing problem in teenagers today. .
             Bulimia nervosa is an eating disorder ,which experience of uncontrolled binge eating. Binge eating involving large amounts of high-calorie foods, followed by induced: vomiting, using laxatives, that cleanse the body of the food eaten during the binge. The binge eating and purging are carried out in secret; therefore, the disease may go undiscovered for many years. Binging is a way by which a person with bulimia attempts to control emotions. It allows the person to look away from unhappiness or uncomfortable emotional problems. .
             In today's society, we are shown that "thin is in, and the thinner the better". As many as one in eight girls between the ages of thirteen and nineteen, including some college students, may have an eating disorder. Most bulimia have tried every type of diet, read all the diet books, and at one time taken diet pills. People with bulimia are obsessed with exercise to control weight. Bulimia is a serious disease and it can turns into death.
             Bulimia is a growing problem in teenagers today. I think that people should realize how seriously bulimia really is. We all see "beautiful" skinny people every day in magazines and on television, and we want to look like them. The media gives us this picture of the ideal person and most of us automatically think to ourselves that this is how we are to look. Our action are unhealthy and can ruin our physical and mental health.