1. Big Reasons for Being Small
Could anorexia in girls be triggered by fear of becoming a woman? ... From anorexia nervosa to bulimia nervosa, females experience pressures that can inevitably force them to question their body and to change their figure. Anorexia and bulimia have similarities in that anorexia people do not eat enough while bulimic people engage in binges followed by vomiting. ... "Genes play a substantial role in the transmission of both bulimia and anorexia nervosa," psychiatrist Cynthia Bulik said recently during a news conference at the Ninth International Conference on Eating Disorders (Driesen, J). ...
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