What is some differences in anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa?

Answer 1

The difference between Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia is that Anerorexia Nervosa is the actually starvation that usually occurs with teenage girls when they pathological fear of becoming fat,distorted body image, excessive dieting, and emaciation, while on the other hand Bulimia is the say pathological fears but they become so hungry they frequently have episodes of grossly excessive food intake followed by purging to avert weight gain. Purging can include, self induced vomiting, overuse of laxatives or diuretics or obsessive exercising.

Answer 2

The difference is that bulimics binge (take in thousands and thousands of calories at one time) and then throw it all up. Most of the time they starve themselves in between binge episodes. Anorexics will starve themselves and sometimes throw up what little bit they do eat.

Answer 3

A bulimic is someone who eats large amounts of foods in one sitting (thousands of calories) then purges them in some way - over exercising, laxatives, edemas, self induced vomiting. An anorexic is someone who limits their caloric intake to a very low level, essentailly starving herself to death. BOTH are very dangerous and could kill the victim.

Answer 4

Anorexia is when you starve yourself, and refuse to eat at all. Usually anorexics also exercise until to the point of exhaustion. With bulimics, they eat regular meals, but throw them up after. They may also have "binges" where they eat tons and tons of calories, then throw them up, or use laxatives, exercise for hours, etc.

Answer 5

Anorexia is an eating disorder in which a person limits calorie intake and exercises compulsively to burn calories and lose weight.

Bulimia is an eating disorder in which a person binges (eats excessive amounts of food and drink in a relatively short amount of time) and then purges (forceful vomiting, laxative or diuretic abuse) to rid themselves of the food in order not to gain weight, which is usually unsuccessful.

Answer 6

Anorexia is an eating disorder where the person eats extremely small amounts of food- the person is starving themself.

Bulimia is an eating disorder where the person eats a lot of food (also known as "binging") and then tries to get rid of it fast (usually by forcing themselves to vomit or by taking drugs like laxatives).

Answer 7

Anorexia nervosa is a condition in which the person is primarily restrictive with their food intake. They are extremely restrictive with amounts and the types of food. Bulimia nervosa can involve some restriction, but is characterized primarily with eating excessive amounts in a period of time and then compensating for this behavior by purging. Purging can be through vomiting, use of laxatives and/or excessive exercise.

Answer 8

People who suffer from anorexia nervosa/mirabilis avoid food altogether, or they eat in very small amounts not sufficient enough to promote a healthy diet. It can cause weight loss, hair loss, skin discoloration, bad breath and psychological symptoms such as altered perception of the body.

People who suffer from Bulimia eat in rather enormous quantities and then induce vomiting to expel all of the food. After this they may not eat for days. This is known as 'binge eating.' It can cause weight loss, bad breath, esophageal varicies (Basically where your esophagus bleeds) and psychological symptoms. They almost become addicted to doing this, sometimes creating rituals in which to throw up.

The two conditions render some of the same symptoms of malnourishment and psychological disfigurement, however, the main pivotal difference is that people with anorexia just starve themselves while those with bulimia binge eat.