Eating disorders in teenage girls is a growing health problem. The statistics are startling. In the United States, conservative estimates indicate that after puberty, 5-10 million girls and women and about1 million boys and men are struggling with eating disorders including anorexia, bulimia, binge eating disorder, or borderline conditions. Fifteen percent of young women have substantially disordered eating attitudes and behaviors. Approximately 80% of bulimia nervosa patients are female (Statistics 2003). Bulimia nervosa may affect between 4.5 and 18 % of high school and college females (late adolescent and early adult) (Zastrow, Krist-Ashman).
Bulimia nervosa is a condition whereby the person tends to be in a cycle of binge eating and then purging (self-induced vomiting). Bulimics may also use laxatives to purge. Bulimics often binge on junk food, some may have no abnormalities in weight and therefore their condition may go undetected for many years. Others can be over or......
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