Bulimia

How to Diagnose DiaBulimia

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DiaBulimia is a new craze for losing weight, primarily among teenage girls with Type 1 Diabetes. It is often undetected and easier to hide than anorexia or bulimia, but unfortunately it is just as bad and occurs in nearly one third of all Type 1 ... more »

How to Talk to Your Doctor About Bulimia

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Eating disorders cause the sufferer not only physical pain, but also emotional anxiety. Bulimia nervosa is characterized by an unhealthy relationship with eating and oftentimes purging excessive amounts of food. To begin fighting this serious ... more »

How to Tell if You Are Bulimic

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Bulimia nervosa is an eating disorder known for its association with binge eating and purging. Bulimic patients are often slow to recognize their own behavior due to the disorder's psychological root. To tell if you are bulimic, try a combination ... more »

How to Support Someone With Bulimia

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Often, a person with an eating disorder knows that she has a problem but is embarrassed or afraid to seek help. Other times, a person denies that she has a problem but feels that her eating patterns are out of her control. Here are some tips to ... more »

How to Appeal Denial of Bulimia Treatment Coverage

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Most medical insurance companies focus the bulk of their coverage on physical medical issues. A person fighting high blood pressure or high cholesterol can get coverage for years of treatment, while the same person may receive limited coverage ... more »

How to Find Help for Someone With Bulimia

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If you suspect someone you love is bulimic, help her get the care she needs by following these steps... more »

How to Identify Bulimia

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Bulimia is an eating disorder characterized by an intense fear of becoming fat. It involves a continuing pattern of binge eating (the rapid consumption of a large amount of food) followed by purging (self-induced vomiting). Excessive use of ... more »

How to Protest the Pro-Ana Movement

By Amanda Morin

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For parents, eating disorder counselors and recovering anorectics and bulimics, the Pro-Ana movement is scary. The movement, which promotes anorexia as a "lifestyle choice" instead of a disease, is growing in popularity with young women across ... more »

How to Treat Bulimia

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Bulimia (bulimia nervosa) is an eating disorder characterized by frequent episodes of binge eating and purging. The disorder is considered a psychological condition that can be difficult to treat. Therapy in combination with medication is often ... more »

How to Use Weight Fluctuations to Detect Bulimia

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Bulimia is an eating disorder that ebbs and flows in many patients. People may binge eat and then make themselves vomit or use laxatives to empty out their bodies. This behavior is often cyclical, so you can use weight fluctuations to detect bulimia... more »

How to Administer the Bulimia BULIT-R Test

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The Bulimia Test Revised (BULIT-R Test) is a set of questions that help diagnose a patient's eating disorder based on the Diagnostics and Statistics Manual (DSM) definition of the condition. It's easy to administer this test to help people ... more »

How to Prevent Bulimia

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Every year, 7 percent of women in the United States will battle with bulimia nervosa. Although to a lesser degree, thousands of men will also suffer from this condition as well. To prevent an eating disorder like bulimia, individuals must make a ... more »

How to Recognize Signs of Over-Exercising

By Nikki Walters

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Body image and weight problems don’t only occur in the form of an eating disorder. Although getting sufficient amount of exercise is essential to a healthy lifestyle, too much exercise is just as detrimental to the health as bulimia or anorexia. ... more »

How to Tell Loved Ones You Have Bulimia

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Bulimia is a life-controlling eating disorder impacting hundreds of thousands of lives in the USA alone. One of the most difficult aspects of bulimia is how well people hide their actions. Unfortunately, bulimia is very difficult to overcome ... more »

How to Get Over Feeling Bad About Past Mistakes

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If you only knew what I've done. I know there's no way God would love someone like me. I hate myself. I wish I could take back what I did. Do you feel like that? You don't have to... more »

How to help someone who has bulimia

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The support of a spouse, parent, sibling, or friend is one of the most valuable tools a person with bulimia can have. If someone close to you has bulimia, you can face it together in many different ways, but remember that they are the one with ... more »

How to Live With Bulimia

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Bulimia, or bulimia nervosa, is a debilitating eating disorder that affects the sufferer physically and emotionally. To live with bulimia, sufferers must seek professional help, get emotional support and make serious lifestyle changes... more »

How to Tell if Someone is Bulimic

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“The patient binges on huge quantities of high-caloric food and /or purges their body of dreaded calories by self-induced vomiting and often by using laxatives” (American Academy of Family Physicians). Here's a list to help you determine if ... more »

How to Cope With Bulimia

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Learning to cope with bulimia is an ongoing process. Because eating disorders may take years to overcome, it's important that people suffering from them learn to cope by finding ways to get help as soon as possible. The sooner bulimia is tackled, ... more »

How to Get Financial Help for Bulimia Treatments

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Individuals battling bulimia often find themselves in financial straits after spending large amounts of money on food during periods of binging. Unfortunately, most of the professional treatment options available for bulimics can be very costly. ... more »

How to Keep a Diary of Eating Behaviors

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The battle against eating disorders can take many months and even years to overcome with the proper help. Maintaining a diary of eating behaviors has proven to be an effective way to manage disorders like anorexia and bulimia. The diary gives the ... more »

How to Recognize the Symptoms of Bulimia

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Bulimia is an eating disorder that affects the way a person looks at food and her personal body image. There are a wide range of bulimia symptoms that often go unnoticed because of the stigma associated with the psychological condition. Many ... more »

How to Treat Bulimia in Men

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Estimates conclude that more than 1 million men suffer from bulimia nervosa per year. Bulimia is an eating disorder in which sufferers try to control their body weight. They often go through cycles of binge eating and purging. Due to the fact ... more »

How to Use Effexor to Treat Bulimia

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Effexor belongs to the SNRI (serotonin-norepinephrine inhibitor) family of antidepressants and is sometimes used to treat bulimia, an eating disorder characterized by binging and purging eating behaviors. Effexor is usually reserved for cases ... more »

How to Assess Cortisol in Saliva to Detect Bulimia

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The relationship between cortisol in saliva and weight levels is accepted for people with obesity, but the procedure is still being refined for other eating disorders. You can assess cortisol in saliva to detect bulimia, although other methods ... more »

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