What is an eating disorder? 2. what health risks are associated with anorexia? 3. what is bulimia? explain the connection between bulimia and dieting / 4. what health risks are possible for someone with binge eating disorder? 5. how are bulimia and anorexia alike? how are they different?

1. An eating disorder is a psychological disorder that causes someone to have abnormal eating habits.

2. Anorexia can cause extreme weight loss, brittle nails, dry hair and skin, hair growth and then later hair loss, tooth decay, death.

3. Bulimia is an eating disorder where someone may appear to eat normally but then they self induce vomiting to get the food out. Bulimia and dieting may be similar in the way that bulimia reduces your food intake, but it's not the healthy way.

4. A binge eating disorder can cause extreme weight gain, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, heart disease, gallbladder disease, and diabetes.

5. Bulimia and anorexia are alike because those effected all experience dissatisfaction with their bodies, the desire to lose weight, depression, and malnutrition. They are different in a way because anorexic people starve themselves, while bulimic people eat or may even binge eat, but force it up later.