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Bulimia
Bulimia is an illness defined by food binges or recurrent episodes of significant overeating followed by the use of methods such as vomiting or laxative abuse to prevent any weight gain.
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Reviewed March 2011
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| Title: | Eating disorders - Professionals |
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| Publisher: | Headroom (South Australia) |
| Description: | Eating Disorders can be diagnosed when a young person refuses to maintain normal weight, has a fear of gaining weight, a disturbance/distortion of body image and amenorrhoea. |
| Date: | Dec 2011 |
| Title: | Eating disorders - children |
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| Publisher: | Better Health Channel |
| Description: | Eating disorders can affect children. More than half of Australian primary school age children want to lose weight. Knowing the risk factors and early warning signs in this age group can help to prevent the development of eating disorders. |
| Date: | Nov 2011 |
| Title: | Eating disorders |
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| Publisher: | Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia) |
| Description: | Before talking about what an eating disorder is, let's look more closely at what is and is not normal eating. Then it will be easier to understand when something is a problem that needs help. |
| Date: | Oct 2010 |
| Title: | Bulimia nervosa |
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| Publisher: | Inspire Foundation |
| Description: | Bulimia nervosa is an eating disorder involving regular binge eating. |
| Date: | Sep 2010 |
| Title: | Bulimia nervosa |
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| Publisher: | Virtual Medical Centre.com |
| Description: | Bulimia nervosa is a psychological disease characterised by episodic, uncontrolled and impulsive binge eating, followed by self-induced vomiting or consumption of laxatives or purgatives to avoid weight gain. |
| Date: | May 2010 |
| Title: | Eating disorders - myDr.com.au |
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| Publisher: | myDr |
| Description: | Anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa are 2 main forms of eating disorders. These illnesses mainly affect young females. |
| Date: | May 2009 |
| Title: | Eating Disorders |
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| Publisher: | HealthInsite Topic Page |
| Description: | Links to information about eating disorders such as binge eating, bulimia and anorexia nervosa. |
| Date: | Oct 2007 |
| Title: | Psychological treatments for bulimia nervosa and binging |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Bulimia nervosa (BN) is an eating disorder in which people binge on food and then try to make up for this by extreme measures such as making themselves sick, taking laxatives or starving themselves. We reviewed studies of psychotherapies, including a sp... |
| Date: | Jun 2007 |
| Title: | Antidepressants versus placebo for people with bulimia nervosa |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Individual antidepressants are effective for the treatment of bulimia nervosa when compared to placebo treatment, with an overall greater remission rate but a higher rate of dropouts. |
| Date: | Aug 2003 |
| Title: | Antidepressants versus psychological treatments and their combination for bulimia nervosa |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Psychotherapeutic approaches, mainly cognitive behavior therapy, and antidepressant medication are the two treatment modalities that have received most support in controlled outcome studies of bulimia nervosa. Using a more conservative statistical appro... |
| Title: | Understanding eating disorders |
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| Publisher: | Multicultural Health Communication Service (NSW) |
| Description: | Facts about anorexia nervosa and bulimia and what parents can do to help prevent them |
| Date: | Aug 1997 |
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