We discussed in class the problem of obesity and how it is affecting kids in schools and their families and how the government is intervening to help them. I found an article about Bulimia Nervosa. This is another weight disorders that affects many women. They starve themselves because they just want to be skinny like movie stars and tops models. They are aiming for perfection because this is what they show in TV, the perfect body, perfect face and perfect hair. Many models are bulimic. I even saw in another article that the model agents tell the models to starve and to never gain weight. He says that they can barely eat to maintain their very skinny figure. According to the article of www.uihelathcare.com Bulimia nervosa includes two elements binge eating and self-induced vomiting. Patients cannot control their eating so they binge eating. However, when the person feels dissatisfied with her body she starts dieting a lot and then vomiting what they eat. They are so scared that they will be fat that they basically throw up everything they eat; in order to not gain any weight. Many patients can develop bulimia even in their 50’s. The article says that typically patients consume 10,000 to 30,000 calories a day and binge throughout the day.
Bulimia has several complications like cardiac arrhythmias, renal damage and seizures. Most of the time to take care of bulimic persons, doctors hospitalize them if some of them want to commit suicide. About 50% of the patients take antidepressant drugs to help them recover. According to a you tube video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fq8_Ue3HpxU, “mostly teenagers and college students especially white women are at risk and people who have a family history of this disorder. In the video we can see women being extremely extremely skinny seeing themselves fat. According to the video statistically “Bulimia affects men 5-15% of the time, but it affects women 85-95% of the time.
