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  2. Bulimia nervosa - Wikipedia

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    Bulimia nervosa, also known simply as bulimia, is an eating disorder characterized by binge eating (eating large quantities of food in a short period of time, often feeling out of control) followed by compensatory behaviors, such as vomiting, excessive exercise, or fasting to prevent weight gain.

  3. Gerald Russell - Wikipedia

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    From 1971 to 1979 Russell was a professor and consultant psychiatrist at the Royal Free Hospital, London.During this time he noticed patients who were overeating, followed by self-induced vomiting or using purgatives or both and a morbid fear of becoming fat, which did not fit the classic description of anorexia nervosa.

  4. Eating disorder - Wikipedia

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    Anorexia affects about 0.4% and bulimia affects about 1.3% of young women in a given year. [1] Up to 4% of women have anorexia, 2% have bulimia, and 2% have binge eating disorder at some point in time. [10] Anorexia and bulimia occur nearly ten times more often in females than males. [1] Typically, they begin in late childhood or early ...

  5. Otto Dörr Zegers - Wikipedia

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    He was born in Curicó on December 25, 1936, son of Dr. Otto Dörr Valck and Mrs. Teresa Zegers. [13] In 1942 he entered the San Martín de Curicó Institute, arriving in 1951 at the San Ignacio School in Santiago.

  6. Bulimia Test-Revised - Wikipedia

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    The Bulimia Test-Revised (BULIT-R) is a 36 item self-report questionnaire to assess the presence of bulimic symptoms. It was devised by Thelen et al. in 1991 the first version was devised by Thelen et al. in 1984. The test has been validated for use in both males and females. [1]

  7. Binge eating - Wikipedia

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    It is a common symptom of eating disorders such as binge eating disorder and bulimia nervosa. During such binges, a person rapidly consumes an excessive quantity of food. A diagnosis of binge eating is associated with feelings of loss of control. [1] Binge eating disorder is also linked with being overweight and obesity. [2]

  8. Eating disorders and memory - Wikipedia

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    Two major factors found to contribute to binge eating in bulimia nervosa (BN) patients are: stress and negative emotions. [81] One model of BN produces stress-induced hyperphagia , where rats go through periods of restricted food and then are allowed free access to food; this mimics the intermittent self-imposed fasting and yielding to food of ...

  9. Diabulimia - Wikipedia

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    Diabulimia (a portmanteau of diabetes and bulimia), also known as ED-DMT1 (eating disorder-diabetes mellitus type 1) in the US or T1ED (type 1 eating disorder) in the UK, is an eating disorder in which people with type 1 diabetes deliberately give themselves less insulin than they need or stop taking it altogether for the purpose of weight loss.