Question

A man eats chips and dips and burgers and fries, and drinks a couple of shakes. afterward, he goes to the gym and does 90 minutes of aerobics, spends an hour on the stair stepper, and then does weights for another hour. he also does not eat for 72 hours. the set of assumptions underlying his behavior would lead to a diagnosis of:

Answer 1

The set of assumptions underlying his behavior would lead to a diagnosis of non purging type of bulimia nervosa. A purging type falls under the subtypes of bulimia nervosa in which the guy who is suspected of having a non purging type is having to compensate with binge eating and in the same time, the person compensates dieting with exercising excessively.