Tuesday, November 17, 2009








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Anorexia is typically the main eating disorder projected when it comes to the topic , more less amongst models and women in the media. However, it's become an immense life-threatening illness most commonly among teen girls, but also males. In a lot of cases it doesn't seem to be taken as seriously as it should be, often being called " disgusting " or being told " they have a choice whether they throw up or not." The illness is corrosive of the mind, it allows nothing more for the mind to process except the next binge and workout. The worst half of this illness is people, mainly teenage girls who use this as a "trend."



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The show ' Gossip Girl' has recently received attention from Black Lively being portrayed as the " Bulimic Beauty Queen."




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" The Hills " Stephanie Pratt has been receiving unwanted negative attention from the media on her bulimia. She claims that the perfectionism her parents induced in her as a child built up and resulted in this negative result after being around all the morbidly thin girls on the show's cast.








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It's usually described as eating a large amount of food , then purging; vomiting , - but it's not always. It can be a person who scares the amounts of food and purges , only purges one particular meal , or even who just eats normally but at the end of the day still purges because " they feel fat." Other ways bulimics may uses to rid the body of food include laxatives, diuretics (water pills), and fasting.






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Symptoms
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Distinguishing if someone is bulimic is typically not the easiest thing to spot, like anorexia. Most of the time bulimics are at average or just below weight because they may only binge to maintain their current, but of course not always. A particular detail to pay attention to would be if they run the water while their in the bathroom, most of the time this is done to cover up the sound of vomiting. Bulimics right after meals will go to the bathroom or wait three hours before the food digests. If at home the bulimic will even go drastically as taking a shower so they can do their rituals privately in there . Bulimics will usually say statements such as how fat they feel , exclaiming that they need to lose weight or often asking " how do i look " / looking in mirrors or their reflection often.In most cases, more food is obviously eaten than the normal, their engulfed in overachieving behavior, and frequent weighing. After a binge / purge the person will usually " punish " themselves by starvation or a brutal workout. The main reason for this is because it's the one thing that they can control in an out of control life.




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" Pro-ana " and " Pro-bulimia " websites are a new compulsion for some with eating disorders that are sickening. Sites such as this only. These sites are for sharing " tips " and better " techniques " that only make the illness harder, and if at all curable.







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News Article from CNN on eating disorders.