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Bulimia nervosa may affect up to 1% of young women and, after 10 years of diagnosis, half will recover fully, a third will recover partially, and 10–20% will still have symptoms. [ 4 ] Adolescents with bulimia nervosa are more likely to have self-imposed perfectionism and compulsivity issues in eating compared to their peers.
Anorexia affects about 0.4% and bulimia affects about 1.3% of young women in a given year. [1] Up to 4% of women have anorexia, 2% have bulimia, and 2% have binge eating disorder at some point in time. [10] Anorexia and bulimia occur nearly ten times more often in females than males. [1] Typically, they begin in late childhood or early ...
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This is a list of notable people who have had bulimia nervosa. Often simply known as bulimia , this is an eating disorder which is characterized by consuming a large amount of food in a short amount of time, followed by an attempt to rid oneself of the calories consumed, usually by self-induced vomiting, laxatives, diuretics or excessive exercise.
First edition (publ. HarperCollins) Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia is an autobiography written by Marya Hornbacher, detailing her fourteen-year battle with eating disorders. [1] Published by HarperCollins in 1997, Wasted was a critical and commercial success. The author's young age (she wrote the book at the age of 21) surprised many ...
Of interest in terms of anorexia nervosa is the medieval practice of self-starvation by women, including some young women, in the name of religious piety and purity. This is sometimes referred to as anorexia mirabilis. By the thirteenth century, it was increasingly common for women to participate in religious life and to even be named as saints ...
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However, the racial makeup of BED distinctly varies from anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa. [37] Rates of binge eating disorder have been found to be similar among black women, white women, and white men, [72] while some studies have shown that binge eating disorder is more common among black women than among white women. [11]