Question

In a paragraph, contrast the characteristics between anorexia and bulimia.

Answer 1

The main difference between diagnoses is that anorexia nervosa is a syndrome of self-starvation involving significant weight loss of 15 percent or more of ideal body weight, whereas patients with bulimia nervosa are, by definition, at normal weight or above.

Answer 2

Anorexia is an eating disorder that starts from a lack of proper perception of body image. It almost always affects adolescent women, who always perceive themselves as very overweight but are not, and more rarely can affect men. As a result, they are progressively decreasing food consumption and can lead to severe malnutrition. Bulimia, on the other hand, affects young people of both sexes who want to have a “beautiful” body - neither fat nor thin - but still eating a lot. In order not to put on weight, however, they force vomiting after meals, eat inadequate diets and exaggerate physical activity.  In anorexia, the body gets used to it and the person may stop feeling hungry, while in bulimia hunger persists. In both cases, however, these are complex eating disorders. Some people may have anorexia and bulimia or develop one disorder as a result of another.