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14 July, 17:48

Describe in a few sentences each the following eating disorders: anorexia, bulimia, binge eating, bigorexia, and exercise compulsion, drunkorexia.

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  1. 14 July, 17:57
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    Anorexia refers to a loss or lack of appetite for food, it is an emotional disorder featured by an obsessive feeling to lose weight by refusing to eat.

    Bulimia refers to an eating disorder, in which a huge quantity of food is eaten in a brief duration, generally followed by the feelings of shame or guilt.

    Binge eating refers to an extreme eating disorder in which an individual continuously eats a huge quantity of food and feel unstoppable to eat.

    Bigorexia also is known as muscle dysmorphia refers to an exaggerated or delusional belief that the body of one's own is too skinny, too small, inadequately lean, or inadequately muscular. Though in the majority of the situations, the build of the person is normal.

    Compulsive exercise also termed as exercise addiction takes place when an individual is motivated to exercise too much. Injury, illness, and other conditions do not stop the individual to exercise.

    Drunkorexia is the term given to an individual who limits the intake of food calories in order to make space for alcoholics drink calories. In spite of the risks, it has been shown that about 30 percent of the women between age 18 and 23 diets so that they can drink.
  2. 14 July, 18:14
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    Anorexia : Condition which occurs due to very low weight of body due to the fear of gaining weight.

    Bulimia: Bulimia nervosa can be described as a condition in which there is binge eating by the person first which is followed up by purging.

    Bigorexia: Bigorexia can easily be described as the reverse of anorexia.

    Drunkorexia: A condition in which there is binge or purge eating due to the intake of alcohol.

    Exercise compulsion : A condition in which a person does excessive exercise.

    Binge eating: It is a condition in which a person does excessive over eating without feeling the need to stop.

    Explanation:

    Anorexia: Anorexia Nervosa, which is also termed as anorexia, can be a psychological disorder in which the person becomes life threatening from the fear of getting fat. As a result, they get an extremely low body weight.

    Bulimia: Bulimia, also termed as Bulimia Nervosa, is a condition in which a person does over eating i. e binge of an eating first and then tries to compensate it with any kind of purging activity. The purging activity could be any activity which he tries to do so that he can get rid of the excessive food taken.

    Bigorexia: Bigorexia, also termed as Muscle Dysmorphia, is a condition in which the person thinks that he/she is very skinny or under weight when in real he/she is normal or usually over weight.

    Drunkorexia : Drunkorexia is a condition in which a person has abnormal eating patterns trying to compensate for the large amount of alcohol that he/she has consumed.

    Exercise compulsion : Exercise compulsion is a disorder in which a person focuses only on exercising ignoring the daily activities or any injuries that he/she might have acquired.
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