• eating_disorder

  • Types of eating disorder

    There are two types of eating disorders:
    • Anorexia Nervosa
    • Bulimia Nervosa

    Anorexia nervosa
    People suffering from anorexia nervosa are obsessed with food and being thin, sometimes to the point of starving themselves to death.

    There are two sub-types of anorexia nervosa:
    • Restricting type where they lose weight through dieting, fasting, or excessive exercise. They don’t regularly engage in binge-eating or purging.
    • Binge-eating/ purging type where they regularly engage in binge-eating and/or
      purging to lose weight or prevent putting on weight. Purging involves self-induced vomiting or the use of laxatives, diuretics, or enemas.



    Bulimia nervosa
    People with bulimia go through regular episodes of bingeing and purging. During these episodes, they eat a large amount of food in a short duration and then try to rid of the extra calories by self-induced vomiting, excessive exercise or the use of laxatives, diuretics, enemas or other medications.

    There are two sub-types of bulimia nervosa:
    • Purging type where they regularly engaged in self-induced vomiting or use of laxatives,diuretics, or enemas.
    • Non-purging typewhere they attain weight loss through fasting or exercising excessively.

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