Bulimia Nervosa: How Women Abuse Their Bodies to Achieve that Ultra Thin Look!

One of the most common issues that best women all over the United States nowadays is their image of their bodies. Many women all over the country do not feel good about their bodies that they tend to do something drastic just to achieve that thin figure that have been extolled by the media for years. Because most people that you see on TV, on billboards and the movies are thin, our society now equates thinness with beauty and desirability. Never mind that there are more plus size women in the country than those who are super thin, the gauge for beauty is still that ultra thin supermodel walking down the runaway or that lovely thin actress that you see on screen.

As the cultural idea of thinness pervades in our society, more and more women are now trying to kill themselves just to achieve that look. One of the leading eating disorders of women in the United States nowadays is bulimia nervosa. Bulimia nervosa is an eating disorder which is characterized by eating large quantities of food then trying to get rid of the food by vomiting, taking laxatives or over exercising to get rid of the excess calories.

Bulimia nervosa is like anorexia nervosa where the woman would have some morbid fear of getting fat. However, unlike in anorexia nervosa where the sufferer would look overly thin, a person who is bulimic would often look normal and have normal body size. Bulimics are harder to detect than their anorexic counterparts. In fact, there are many bulimics all over the country that are actually overweight!

More often than not, a woman who has bulimia would not feel any changes in her body during the early stages. Unlike in anorexia nervosa where the menstrual period of the woman would stop when the body stars starving for nutrients, the menstrual cycle of bulimic women would often go on as usual. However, as the women continue to eat and then purge out the food from her system, she will soon start feeling some symptoms. In most cases, women with bulimia will develop some dental problems, swelling around the base of the jaws throat irritations caused by the forcing out of the food, lesions in the esophagus, gastrointestinal problems and heart problems due to the imbalance caused by the purging out of the food from the body. If the woman uses some substances to force out the food from her stomach, this could cause further complications. Bulimia is a very dangerous condition that could lead to the elder demise of a person.