1. Anorexia
Specifically Bulimia
A Presentation by:
Jordan Fairley

2. INTRODUCTION
Anorexia Nervosa is an eating disorder where people starve themselves.
Weight loss is 15% below normal body weight.
Believe that they are overweight though they are extremely thin.
A couple other eating disorders include: bulimia and binge-eating.

3. WHO HAS THE DISORDER? Most common: Adolescent girls
People of higher socioeconomic class
Dancers, theater, modeling and distance runners
Usually students who get very good grades, and are very involved in community
Often perfectionists
May be depressed

4. WARNING SIGNS OF ANOREXIA A FEW SIGNS ONE MIGHT BE ANOREXIC
Fear of gaining weight
Refusal to eat
Denial of hunger
Constantly exercising
Sensitivity to cold
Absent or irregular period in women
Loss of scalp hair

5. SIDE EFFECTS Girls stop having menstrual period. Dry skin Thin hair
Loss of muscle mass
Kidney damage
Irregular heart beat/ cardiac death
Permanent loss of bone mass

6. BULIMIA
Eating disorder which includes binge eating followed by frequent trips to the bathroom to vomit.
In between purges people with bulimia rarely eat, or eat very little.
About 3% of women in the U.S. are Bulimic; and about 5% of all people with eating disorders are men.

7. SIDE EFFECTS OF BULIMIA Dizziness and fainting
The side-effects of people with prolonged bulimia is very serious.
Dizziness and fainting
Inability to keep down food
Addicted to laxatives
Heart failure, cardiac arrest
Bleeding throat and nose
Edema, which is fluid retention caused by laxative abuse
Stomach ulceration
Tearing of the esophagus
Bowel Damage
Constipation
Swelling in the fingers and joints

8. Getting Help
It is hard to stop, just like anything else people may be use to.
Have to overcome the denial stage.
Friends and Family
Hospitalization in extreme cases
REFERENCES:
MAYOCLINIC.COM, MAMASHEALTH.COM, FAMILYDOCTOR.ORG,
ANOREXIA NERVOSA AND BULIMIA ASSOCIATION