Is bulimia an eating disorder with severe caloric restriction?

Answer 1

A: No. Anorexia is what you're thinking about. People simply just don't eat.

Bulimia is when they eat (and sometimes binge eat), and then they throw it up. Here is the definition from the oxford dictionary for bulimia:

Pronunciation:/bjʊˈlɪmɪə, bʊ-/

(also bulimia nervosa)

noun[mass noun]

• an emotional disorder characterized by a distorted body image and an obsessive desire to lose weight , in which bouts of extreme overeating are followed by fasting or self-induced vomiting or purging.

Derivativesbulimicadjective & noun Origin:

late Middle English (as bolisme, later bulimy): modern Latin, or from medieval Latin bolismos, from Greek boulimia 'ravenous hunger', from bous 'ox' + limos 'hunger'