Assignment about Bulimia Nervosa and Binge

Running head: ANOREXIA NERVOSA, BULIMIA NERVOSA AND BINGE
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Anorexia nervosa also named anorexia is a disorder related to eating with unnaturally
reduced body weight, fear of extreme weight gain, and inaccurate weight interpretation.
Anorexia is more prevalent among females. Men and boys, though, have progressively
developed eating disorders, which can potentially be linked to increased social pressures
(Zipfel et al., 2015).
Anorexia nervosa’s symptoms can be seen to be physical symptoms and emotional
symptoms. Physical symptoms often include starvation that can be observed easily. While
other physical symptoms cannot be observed easily that includes excessive weight loss or
failure to achieve natural developmental weight gains, dizziness, skinny appearance,
fatigue, abnormal blood counts, dry or yellowish skin, insomnia, or fainting bluish
discoloration finger, absence of menstruation, hair that thins, breaks or falls out, soft, dull
hair covering the body, constipation and abdominal pain, intolerance of cold irregular heart
rhythms, and eroded teeth and calluses.
The emotional symptoms include Anorexia behavioral signs that can include efforts to
lose weight by significantly restricting dietary intake or fasting, excessive workout, Bingeing,
and vomiting that is induced by the person itself by the use of laxatives, digestive aids,
enemas, or herbal medicines.
Risk factors associated with the disorder can be biological, diet-based, or transitional.
Mutation in particular genes can establish an increased risk of anorexia in specific
individuals. People with a first-degree family member suffering from this disorder have a
potentially higher risk of anorexia. Starvation impacts the brain, which causes behavior shifts,
thinking inflexibility, anxiety, and hunger-reduction. Starvation and unnatural weight
reduction affect the working mechanism the brain especially in vulnerable people, which may
reinforce unhealthy eating patterns and rendering adapting to regular eating habits

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impossible. The transition from one environment to a new environment can also be a risk
factor of the disorder (Park, Godier & Cowdrey, 2014).
Bulimia nervosa is a severe and often lethal eating disorder, also called bulimia.
People with bulimia consume massive amount of food with a loss of control over consuming
and then vomit attempts to unhealthily ways to shed of the additional calories.
The signs and symptoms of Bulimia include being concerned with body appearance
and weight, living in fear of weight gain, repeated episodes of eating abnormally large
amounts of food in one sitting, and feeling the loss of self-control during bingeing (Meule,
von Rezori & Blechert, 2014).
The risk factor associated with the disorder for women is more prominent than men,
like Anorexia Nervosa. Also, the disorder’s prevalence is potentially higher in people having
first degree relatives with this disorder. Associated risk factors can be biological such as
psychological as well as emotional issues like anxiety disorders, insomnia, or substance use
disorders are strongly related to the disorder—individuals who do diet have an increased risk
of acquiring eating disorders. People with bulimia disorder most of the time, heavily limit
calories during binge periods, which may cause an impulse to consume and detox binge once
again (Pearson, Wonderlich & Smith, 2015).
Binge eating disorder (BED) is a form of eating and feeding condition now
recognized as being an accepted disorder. This disorder affects about 2 percent of adults
across the world and can exacerbate other diet-related health issues, such as elevated
cholesterol rates and diabetes. This disorder is not a question of the diet itself, and that is
why they are considered as psychiatric illnesses (Brownley et al., 2016).
Symptoms of BED disorders can be recognized as eating much frequently than usual,
eating until the body get uncomfortably, consuming massive quantities without getting