What's the difference between bulimia and eating?

Bulimia


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Bulimy

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In the conclusion of the review the author presents his own experience with the organization of a MAB (mental anorexia--bulimia club) founded in 1989 at the Psychiatric Clinic of the Faculty of General Medicine, Charles University in Prague, attached to the Unit of specialized care of patients with psychogenic eating disorders.
  • (2) Reduced caloric intake, a hallmark of both disorders, is manifested by self-induced starvation in anorexia and by binge eating and gastrointestinal purging in bulimia.
  • (3) Subjects with diabetes scored lower, or did not differ significantly, from nondiabetic control subjects on measures of oral control and bulimia.
  • (4) Detailed clinical and psychological experimental study of 103 schizophrenia patients with anorexia nervosa revealed its most characteristic correlations with a specific variant of the pathology of drive--bulimia bouts and induced vomiting.
  • (5) Nonetheless, we believe that our data provide compelling evidence that the disturbed eating behavior characteristic of bulimia nervosa can be profitably studied in the laboratory.
  • (6) Cerebrospinal fluid neurotransmitter metabolite levels were studied to assess whether measures of central serotonin, dopamine, or norepinephrine function are associated with severity of abnormal eating patterns in patients with bulimia nervosa.
  • (7) To determine the natural history of delayed gastric emptying of solid foods in anorexia nervosa (AN), gastric emptying was assessed by scintigraphy in 20 consecutive inpatients; eight had restrictive AN, ten had both AN and bulimia nervosa (BN), and two BN alone.
  • (8) She manifested not only episodic bulimia, impulsive self-injury, suicidal attempt, and obvious depressive emotion; but also self-provoked-vomiting, wandering, stealing and lying.
  • (9) The results of a small study using fluoxetine in the treatment of bulimia nervosa are presented.
  • (10) Hidden cases of bulimia nervosa or partial syndromes are relatively common in general practice.
  • (11) The purpose of this study is to show that the appetite disorder bulimia is present in high school females.
  • (12) At the time last seen in follow-up, 19 (95%) of the subjects had experienced at least a partial improvement in their bulimia, and 10 (50%) had experienced a complete remission of bulimic symptoms.
  • (13) About 50% of patients with bulimia nervosa have been anorexic before.
  • (14) Notably, young and late onset patients had similar durations of illness prior to presentation, and similar proportions had bulimia and defensive vomiting.
  • (15) In spite of increasing specificity in diagnosis and a growing appreciation of the neuroendocrinologic and physiologic changes that accompany and perpetuate anorexia and bulimia, a clear understanding of these disorders has not been established.
  • (16) Preliminary results are reported on the efficacy of a 4-month group (n = 8) therapy compared with waiting-list controls (n = 9) in women with DSM-III bulimia.
  • (17) General practitioners using DSM-III criteria have studied the incidence and prevalence of anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa in a large (N = 151,781) representative sample of the Dutch population.
  • (18) Bulimia and bulimarexia are more problematic in the 18-22 age group than is anorexia, with its earlier onset.
  • (19) In this study, zinc status was evaluated in 62 patients with bulimia and 24 patients with anorexia nervosa.
  • (20) The EDE is a semistructured interview which has been developed as a measure of the specific psychopathology of anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa.

Eating


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Eat
  • (n.) The act of tasking food; the act of consuming or corroding.
  • (n.) Something fit to be eaten; food; as, a peach is good eating.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) There have been numerous documented cases of people being forced to seek hospital treatment after eating meat contaminated with high concentrations of clenbuterol.
  • (2) Intensity thresholds for eliciting eating and drinking were different, and both thresholds decreased with repeated testing.
  • (3) It looks like the levels of healthy eating are not as good as they should be.
  • (4) The authors presented 16 cases that displayed episodes of pathological over-eating, i.e.
  • (5) The military is not being honest about the number of men on strike: most of us are refusing to eat.
  • (6) You can get a five-month-old to eat almost anything,” says Clare Llewellyn, lecturer in behavioural obesity research at University College London.
  • (7) Although the level of ventilation is maintained constant during eating and drinking, the pattern of breathing becomes increasingly irregular.
  • (8) During collection, the rat was restrained in a plastic holder where it was free to eat.
  • (9) Second, 6 healthy volunteers were studied while eating a constant diet of 20 g of fiber plus 30 radiopaque markers daily so that mean daily transit time could be measured.
  • (10) In considering nutrition and circadian rhythms, time-of-eating behavior is an inherited, genetically controlled pattern that can be phase-shifted by conditioning or training.
  • (11) Rabbits eating Rabbit Chow excreted a very alkaline urine, but rats eating the same diet excreted much less alkali when expressed per kilogram of body weight.
  • (12) Moreover, respondents indicating initially relatively high levels of emotional eating who reported a reduction in that level were found to lose significantly (p less than 0.01) more reported weight and to be significantly (p less than 0.05) more successful at approaching target weight over the period of the study than respondents who continued to report high levels of emotional eating.
  • (13) Instead, they say, we should only eat plenty of lean meat and fish, with fruit and raw vegetables on the side.
  • (14) And finally there is straightforward cannibalism in which humans hunt, kill and eat other humans because they have a preference for human flesh.
  • (15) The R&D team at Unilever, the British-Dutch behemoth that makes 40% of the ice creams we eat in the UK – Magnum, Ben & Jerry's, Cornetto and Carte D'Or among them – has invested heavily to create products that are both healthier and creamier.
  • (16) More than half of carers said they were neglecting their own diet as a result of their caring responsibilities, while some said they were eating the wrong things because of the stress they are under and more than half said they had experienced problems with diet and hydration.
  • (17) He can't eat wheat – he has to have a special diet.
  • (18) Relying on traditional medicine, all 20 women reported eating brown seaweed soup for 20 days after childbirth, and 5 said that they took tonic herbs during the puerperium.
  • (19) Unlike Baker, a courtly Texan, Lew is a low-key figure, an observant Orthodox Jew and native New Yorker, of whom the New York Times once revealed: "He brings his own lunch (a cheese sandwich and an apple) and eats at his desk."
  • (20) Cues conditioned to food elicit eating by selectively activating appetitive systems.

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