The Fastest Way of Losing Weight?
Nowadays, many people consider the slender body as one type of beauty. In consequence, number of people who exercise, eat healthy and less calorie food increases. Often, this trend to have a thin figure brings a side effect of disease called bulimia, or bulimia nervosa. Bulimia is an eating disorder characterized by episodes of excessive eating followed by inappropriate methods of weight control, such as self-induced vomiting. Binge eating is accompanied by a feeling of loss of control over eating. People with bulimia often lose their control over eating, and get rid of their stress by excessively over eating. Shortly after, they feel guilt and worry about being fat and they induce vomiting in order to empty their stomach. Sometimes, vomiting releases a powerful rush of endorphins and this keeps people doing vomit after overeating
In a short run, people lose their weight as they empty their stomach. However, in a long run, repeated overeating and vomiting causes a severe physical damage. Continuous regurgitation of gastric juice damages mouth and teeth, and low blood pressure takes place due to malnourishment. The worst case, but most frequent effect of bulimia would be a suicide attempt.
In order to avoid this severe disease, people should not attempt to get rid of their stress by overeating. In addition, it is important to not feel guilty about overeating, and try to control body weight with an appropriate amount of food and steady exercise.
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It is sad to heat that a common effect of bulimia is suicide. I think that as college students, we are often times more prone to eating disorders like bulimia because we experience large amounts of stress. Like you mentioned at the end of your article, it is important to respond to stress in healthy ways and maintain a healthy diet and steady exercise.