Bulimia Kills

            Bulimia nervosa is an eating disorder represent by experience of uncontrolled binge eating. Binge eating involving large amounts of high-calorie foods, followed by induced: vomiting, using laxatives, diuretics to "purge" or cleanse the body of the food eaten during the binge. An estimated thirty percent of high school and college age girls use this method to stabilize their weight. This turns into a fixed pattern of conduct. The binge eating and purging are carried out in secret; therefore, the disease may go undetected for many years. Bulimia is a serious psychological and medical problem with dangerous complications.
             The causes of bulimia are most often psychological in nature, and events of binging are often stress related. Binging is a way by which a person with bulimia attempts to control emotions. It allows the person to look away from unhappy or uncomfortable emotional problems. Feeling calm with emptiness their stomach after binging. Many people who suffer with bulimia come from families in which they were physical or sexual abuse. Many women started their first binge, because of real or imagined male rejection. Others are perfectionists and over achievers with high standards but low self-esteem. If a woman's basic emotional needs are know that she believe that she is beautiful and not worry about how thin she is. This disorder affects women more than men, especially those in professions that stress appearance, such as modeling, acting, or dancing. Obsession with weight can also result from social factors. .
             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 many 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.