Is anorexia and bulimia similar

Answer 1

Both anorexia and bulimia are eating disorders where extreme dieting is used to lose weight. Anorexia is not eating or strictly limiting the food eaten, while bulimia is mostly throwing up after meals. Both disorders are commonly thought to originate as a mental disorder, possibly linkd to Body Dismorohic Disorder (BDD). Each can cause serious health risks and problmes. In sever cases, both can become fatal.

Answer 2

Bulimia and anorexia are alike in the fact that they are both eating disorders and mental diseases. They both involve a person who has self esteem issues who do want to lose weight and not gain any. They are both deadly and have permanent effects on a person.

Answer 3

Anorexia and bulimia are similar in the fact that both are eating disorders that involve negative body image, and unhealthy obsession with food and weight, and their potential to damage or kill the body.

Answer 4

Both anorexics and bulimics are prone to starving themselves, but bulimics also have periods of binging and purging. In other words they will starve themselves for a long time then they will eat and eat and eat and eat.... then they will vomit it back up or take an excess amount of laxatives.

Answer 5

Similarities:

-both are eating/ mental disorders

-both are to lose weight in an unhealthy way

-both involve malnutrition

-both cause a feeling of control

Differences:

-anorexia involves limited food intake

-bulimia involves binging as well as purging

Answer 6

Anorexia and Bullimia are both alike because they are both eating disorders. Anorexia and Bullimia are both alike because they are both eating disorders.

Answer 7

No, anorexia is when an individual starves themselves in order to loose weight while a bulimic will purge, whether it be through throwing up, taking laxatives, or excessive exercising.

Answer 8

for one: they are both eating disorders, two: it can both cause harmful diseases,three: they both have to do with the body

Answer 9

They are similar in the fact that they are dangerous and they are an eating disorder, but anorexia is restraining from eating and bulimia is throwing up what you eat.