Eating Disorders1

discipline proves how obsessed women are with becoming thin.
             "Many anorexic women also indulge in occasional eating binges, and half of them make the transition to bulimia. About 40% of the most severely bulimic patients have a history of anorexia. It's not clear whether the combination of anorexia with bingeing and purging is more debilitating, physically or emotionally, than anorexia alone" (Grinspoon and Batalar 1). Both anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa are psychological disorders that also cause physical harm. Brittle bones are common from a lack of calcium; muscles dissolve and begin eating themselves because there is not enough caloric intake. Some anorexic victims exercise profusely without eating, which causes their body to self-destruct. Anorexic victims also have problems with their heart and blood from the lack of iron in their diet.
             Bulimia Nervosa is defined as "two or more episodes of binge eating (rapid consumption of a large amoun
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