Most everyone has heard of the two most common eating disorders, Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia Nervosa. Recently binge eating disorder (BED) has been added to this list of major eating disorders. For those who do not fit into any of these categories, is another, often confusing diagnosis: Eating Disorder NOS (Not Otherwise Specified). This clinical ...
Bulimia nervosa is one of the most common eating disorders suffered by women in the United States today. Bulimia nervosa is a very serious condition that should not ignore by people. There have been so many cases of women dying because of this eating disorder not only in the United States but also all over ...
I know you are thinking right now “Why do I have bulimia? How can I stop it? And why isn’t anything I tried before stopping bulimia and has failed to help?” You understand that bulimia is slowly killing you and ruining your life but you can’t stop. It seems like something inside you is stronger ...
Pollack “Polly” Williams, age 33, one of the main women followed in the documentary Thin died Friday, February 8, 2008, at her residence. The cause is currently unknown. Thin a documentary by photographer Lauren Greenfield was an intimate look at the lives of four young women as they went through treatment at the Renfrew Center ...
The History of bulimia is old. Even in ancient Rome people used to vomit up food they ate in the period of feasting. They even had special places for it called “vomitorium”. There is a lot of recollection about these events in ancient Rome books. Roman emperors Claudius and Vitellius were bulimic. Some other cultures ...
Bulimia nervosa is an eating disorder that is characterized by regular episodes of binging and purging. As soon as the people with this disorder eat they make their way to the bathroom to vomit it up. This behavior is compulsive and the people afflicted with this disorder feel ashamed and set apart from everyone else. ...
