Bulimia nervosa

Bulimia nervosa, an eating disorder more commonly known as bulimia, is a psychological condition in which the subject engages in recurrent binge eating followed by intentionally doing one or more of the following in order to compensate for the intake of the food and prevent weight gain:

At risk groups

Risk factors for bulimia are similar to those of other eating disorders, such as anorexia nervosa:

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• females
• those of age 10 through to 25
• athletes
• people who are active in dancing, modeling or gymnastics
• students who are under heavy workloads
• those who have suffered traumatic events in their lifetime such as child abuse and sexual abuse
• those positioned in the higher echelons of the socioeconomic scale
• the highly intelligent and/or high-achievers.10
• perfectionists
• homosexual males11