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bulimia

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bulimia: see eating disorders eating disorders, in psychology, disorders in eating patterns that comprise four categories: anorexia nervosa, bulimia, rumination disorder, and pica. Anorexia nervosa is characterized by self-starvation to avoid obesity.
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The predominantly female patients included many with anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa.
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Your body needs nourishment, and bulimia is a frightening disease.
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More people are somewhere on this bread spectrum of eating disorders than [the subset] who have been diagnosed with anorexia or bulimia.
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