Bulimia nervosa is an eating disorder qualified by commonplace episodes of binge eating, followed by frenzied efforts to avoid putting on weight. If you’re fighting with bulimia, life is a ceaseless battle between the want to slim down or remain thin and the overpowering obsession to binge eat. You don’t prefer to binge—you understand you’ll [...]
When you’re living with bulimia, you’re putting your body—and even your life—at risk. The most life-threatening side effect of bulimia is dehydration due to purging. Throwing up, laxatives, and diuretics may cause electrolyte imbalances in the body, most generally in the form of low potassium levels. Low potassium levels trigger a wide range of symptoms [...]
There’s no single cause of bulimia. While low self-regard and worries about weight and body image play huge roles, there are a lot of additional contributing causes. In many cases, individuals suffering with bulimia—and eating disorders as a whole—have trouble managing emotions in a sound way. Eating may be an emotional release so it’s not [...]
Let’s take just 2 vitamin and mineral deficiencies generally caused by low-calorie dieting and trace their course as they activate the symptoms of eating disorders. Vitamin B1 (thiamin). Simply depleted by under eating, this is among the nutrients that your body can’t make itself, so you must get B1 from foods, chiefly the whole foods [...]
As the activeness of the brain shrinks with dieting, the brain’s mental and emotional stableness may falter – even conk out. (You may recognize brain chemistry deficiency by its really specific symptoms, like depression, anxiety, irritability, obsessiveness, and low self-regard.)People who are dieters or have eating disorders always suffer from mood issues, caused mainly by [...]
