Bulimia Nervosa

• Bulimia Nervosa affects 1-4% of the population and carries with it an increased risk for multiple medical and/or psychiatric complications.
• Bulimia Nervosa is the attempt to control body weight by eating large quantities of food followed by compensatory behaviors, such as self-induced vomiting, use of laxatives or diuretics (water pills), excessive exercise and/or further restriction of calorie intake.
• Ingesting large quantities of food is called binge eating, which is described as eating an amount of food larger than most people would eat in a similar circumstance and time frame (about a 2-hour time span), and feeling a lack of control over eating during the time span.

• Eating Disorders
• Anorexia Nervosa
• Bulimia Nervosa
• Eating Disorder Not
  Otherwise Specified
• Binge-Eating Disorder