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The first thing that I want to show and explain in my documentary is What is Bulimia, I want to explain everyone the things that I had understand and make sure that they know what is bulimia. Then, I want to explain each one of the bulimia signs and symptoms, to make sure that they know the bad signs and symptoms that bulimia have. When I finish explaining the Bulimia signs and symptoms I would like to show stories about people that has suffered with bulimia or that sometime had it and show pictures with people with bulimia that shows how bad they look. Then I would like to talk about the physical and medical complications about bulimia. When I finish with the medical complications I would start talking about other ways of being thin and ways to have a healthy body and a good shape. At last, I would like to said to the people why should bulimia stop and make sure that my documentary and explanations had make concerned people of how bad is bulimia and the consequences that you could have, I really want to make them be sure that it's better not  get involved into bulimia.

I want to get more involved and to search more about the psychological effects that the people has when they have bulimia, I really want to search more about that and know about that because they said that when people gets into bulimia they start using drugs, so that people can also have worse consequences. Other thing that I would like to search more about is to understand each of the effects on bulimia but understand each one exactly to have a good documentary.  

 

 

 

Bulimia nervosa, often called bulimia, is a type of eating disorder. A person with bulimia eats a lot of food in a short amount of time (binges) and then tries to prevent weight gain by getting rid of the food, called purging. Purging might be done by:

• making yourself throw up
• taking laxatives — pills or liquids that speed up the movement of food through your body and lead to a bowel movement

        A person with bulimia may also exercise a lot, eat very little or not at all, or take pills to pass urine to prevent weight gain.

 

• Binge eating
• Secretive eating (food missing)
• Bathroom visits after eating
• Vomiting
• Laxative, diet pill or diuretic abuse
• Weight fluctuations (usually with 10-15 lb range)
• Swollen glands
• Broken blood vessels
• Harsh exercise regimes
• Fasting
• Mood swings
• Depression
• Severe self-criticism
• Self-worth determined by weight
• Fear of not being able to stop eating voluntarily
• Self-deprecating thoughts following eating
• Fatigue
• Muscle weakness
• Tooth decay
• Irregular heartbeats
• Avoidance of restaurants, planned meals or social events
• Complains of sore throat
• Need for approval from others
• Substance abuse
• Ipecac abuse

        Physical/Medical Complications

• Fatigue and lack of energy
• Amenorrhea (loss of menstruation) and irregular menstruation
• Dizziness
• Headaches
• Dehydration
• Constipation and diarrhea
• Shortness of breath
• Irregular heartbeats
• Depression
• Tears of esophagus
• Hair loss
• Stomach pain and bloating
• Erosion of teeth enamel
• Chronic sore throat
• Kidney and liver damage
• Parotid gland enlargement
• Electrolyte imbalances
• Cathartic colon (caused from laxative abuse)
• Edema (swelling of hands and feet)
• Low blood pressure
• Chest pains
• Development of peptic ulcers and pancreatitis (inflammation of the pancreas)
• Gastric dilation and rupture
• Abrasions on back of hands and knuckles
• Anemia’s
• Cardiac arrest and death

 

How does Bulimia harm you and your Family?

 

  When you have this eating disorder it's hard to stop, you think that whatever you eat will make you very fat so you throw it all up. When you do this you are hurting yourself and your family at the same time because like anorexia, it's hard for them to see you like this. It harms you because it makes you so skinny and soon you just make yourself turn to nothing because there's nothing left of you - you've thrown everything up. It harms your family because when and if the see you like this it makes them feel like there is nothing that they can do, it's like if you don’t want help then they can't give it to you. Again like anorexia if you don’t want help then you will never get it unless you are forced into it. The reason why it’s so hard to get help is because you just want to be skinnier and skinnier because although you think you look attractive, you don't. It's gross when you can see every bone in your body and your legs and arms are the size of toothpicks. Even though you think it looks good it doesn't, it's better to have more weight than none at all.

 

 

Bulimia what is it?

    Bulimia is an eating disorder that is more common in women on their 20's. People with bulimia binges eat at least two times at a week for at least 3 months. They use a lot of things to help them be thin and prevent to gain weight like laxatives, a lot of dieting, excessive amount of exercise, diuretics, and obviously vomiting. These people are never happy with their bodies; they always want to be thinner. Bulimics usually maintain a healthy weight while anorexia is often a severe loss of weight. People with bulimia usually have a puffy face; they also have swollen fingers and discolored teeth. They go to the bathroom a lot after eating to purge. Bulimia damages the digestive system and affects electrolyte balances which damages organs. The excess of purging possibly could rapture the esophagus. Bulimia causes fatigue, so then they start to eat in excess and then they purge. Bulimia also causes depression, and usually people with bulimia uses drugs. Also they have stomach pains and irregular heart rate. When you purge the stomach acids ruin your teeth, so the teeth decay. To eliminating bulimia they main thing that doctors try to do is to eliminating binging and purging. They also force the person to eat three meals a day and exercise but not excessively and treat psychological issues such as mood or anxiety disorders.

    I think that bulimia is the most damaging eating disorder the same as anorexia. I think that bulimia requires a lot of help and a long treatment to help the person gain their normal weight again and healthier, but I think that the most important think to recover of bulimia is that the person wants to recover, because then they will never recover because they would not follow the things that doctors or the person that helps them said them to do. I think that if the person don’t do what they have to do to recover they would never recover so they would have serious problems like death, and I think is not fair that people dies only because they don’t like their bodies and they want to be thin. But almost all of the time people with bulimia recover faster than the people with anorexia. And anorexia is worse than bulimia because they think that they are really fat and want to be thinner each time and they are really disappearing.

    How you know, bulimia is a very bad eating disorder that can have severe problems. If you don’t have a good treatment if you get on bulimia, how I said you need to have doctors, nutritionists, or any person that helps you to have a very good treatment on you. Bulimia is an eating disorder very harmful and not everyone has the opportunity to out of it, so you might not get on bulimia and start getting worried about other things like school, your health, and many other important things and not about your body shape and trying to be thin because it will harm you a lot. Well, how you know, I will be writing more about eating disorder and specially bulimia. I hope you had learned and be concerned of the consequences of bulimia. Talk you later! Bye

 

Wow, that's a lot of information, good job. Indeed, Bulimia is a terrible eating disorder, and to those who have chosen that path, either due to peer pressure or low self-esteem, looks back and tries to visualize what is really important in life. Now this is from an aspect that has never witnessed or been in such a situation, but I hope this poem, (that I will be posting later) will be of some inspiration to all those who have fallen into this perilous voyage. Also, I'll try to compete with all this information you guys have written and post some pictures and other types of media. Finally, I'm quite interested in the physiological area of Bulimia and how people, even after loosing so much weight, are still persuaded that they are obese or overweight, where can this urge come from? Well, I hope that together as a team we'll learn as much as we can and turn out with a superior final product to show others how important Bulimia really is. Right here is a picture showing the different effects Bulimia can do really do to one's body.

 

 

 

Bulimia

• Bulimia can lead to heart problems, and even death

·         Approximately 80% of bulimia nervosa patients are female.

·         Very dangerous weight loss strategy.

·         A person with bulimia fears gaining weight

·         A person with bulimia eats and eats and eats and never gains a pound.

·         Frequent use of laxatives, water pills, enemas makes bulimic person loose weight faster by going to the bathroom.

·         Bulimic people constantly exercise and sometimes more then their bodies can handle.

·         After eating a lot they puke up all of their food. Puking becomes habitual and out of control.

 

 

Symptoms:

·         Symptoms of Bulimia are very unnoticeable.

·         Surprisingly being underweight isn’t a symptom. They are usually normal weight or overweight because they eat a lot.

·         Bulimics act secretive around eating period and after. They have frequent trips to the bathroom after meals. Other signs are vomit smells, evidence of laxatives. After everyone else has gone to bed they are in the kitchen bingeing. Wanting limitless privacy in bedroom or bathroom.

·         Odd Eating Behavior. They avoid eating with others. They take small portions. Cut food into small bits or drink soda and water to make vomiting easier.

·         They eat large amounts of food and gain no weight. Lot’s of containers and wrappers in the garbage.

·         Constantly using mints or gum to cover of smell of vomiting in their breath.  Running water while in the bathroom.

·         Poor body image, wearing baggy clothes, avoids looking in mirrors.

·         By jamming fingers in throat that discolors the hand.

·      Teeth and mouth problems, bleeding of cheeks and gums. Discolored teeth that look like they don’t have enough calcium, this is because of stomach acid.

·       Constipation and diarrhea.

·        Irregular or nonexistent menstrual periods (in females)

·        There is two types of Bulimia. One is called Purging type. The person binges food then vomits and uses laxatives, enemas or diuretic pills to help them vomit it all out. The second is called No purging. This person does excessive amounts of exercise to use up calories, and does not purge food from the body.

·         Changing weight gain of 5-20 pounds per week.

·         Bloodshot eyes

·         Dry lips and skin around the mouth.

·         Calluses on or knuckle on index finger due to pushing up against teethe to induce vomiting.

·         Increase in occurrence of cavities due to excessive carbohydrate intake during binge-eating.

·Braces and temporary restorations may not stay on the teeth because the acid will dissolve the temporary cement used to keep these materials in place.

 

Bulimia causes serious physical and emotional effects. Some of the major effects of bulimia include:

• an imbalance in electrolytes;
• inflammation of the esophagus, salivary glands, and jaw;
• problems with teeth, gums, and lips;
• chronic irregular bowel movements due to abusive laxatives;
• feelings of shame and guilt;
• depression;
• low self-esteem; and
• Damaged family and social relationships.

What is Bulimia?

• An eating and psychiatric compulsive disorder
• Binge-eating must occur at least 2 times a week for 3 months to be diagnosed and bulimia.
• Bulimics control their weight by self-induced vomiting, excessive exercise, and abuse of laxatives and diuretics.

Who suffers from it?

• 14 out of 100 000 people suffer from bulimia
• Mainly effects young females, 1.4% females who suffer from it are between the ages of 18-30.
• 1 in 10 patients are male
• 1/3 of those who suffer from Bulimia have a history of anorexia
• 1/3 also have a history of obesity

Why do people suffer from it?

• Bulimics have an obsession with weight, food and eating.
• Bulimics realize they have abnormal eating habits but get addicted to the binge-eating, purge cycle and lose control

What may Bulimics might start doing? 

· 35-70% of bulimics suffer from depression.

· May begin to abuse alcohol or drugs.

· May lose some sense of taste.

· May be dehydrated due to vomiting and/or laxative and diuretic abuse.

· May be constipated and rely on laxatives for bowel movements.

· May vomit without inducing it, preventing bulimics from eating in public.

· May have an irregular heartbeat.

· May be at a higher risk for heart attacks.

· May become life threatening.

 

 

Websites:

http://womenshealth.gov/faq/Easyread/bulnervosa-etr.htm#a

 

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