ng disorders can also be found in males. "Both anorexia and bulimia appear to be much more common in women than in men, from 90 to 95 percent of all patients are females" (Long, 1999). Eating disorders typically begins in adolescence between the ages of twelve and twenty-five, however, it may begin as early as seven and can continue until as late as fifty-nine. There are three main classifications of eating disorders, anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge eating. The general definition of anorexia nervosa is a severe restriction in the amount of food a person eats, avoidance of eating, and occasionally purging. Whereas bulimia is the occurrence of frequent episodes (at least two times per week) of binge eating combined
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