how many people are currently affected by bulimia and anorexia ?

Answer 1

Eating Disorders: Lifetime Prevalence
* 0.5-3.7% of females suffer from anorexia nervosa
* 1.1-4.2% of females suffer from bulimia nervosa
* 2-5% of males and females suffer from binge eating disorder
* 4.5% females, 0.4% males report bulimia in first year of college Source: APA Work Group on Eating Disorders, 2000

Eating Disorders: Prevalence
* 0.5-1% of adolescents have anorexia nervosa
* 2-3% of adolescents have bulimia nervosa

Eating Disorders: Incidence
* Doubled since 1960s
* Increasing in younger age groups, as young as 7 years
* Occurring increasingly in diverse ethnic and sociocultural groups
* 40-60% of high school girls diet
* 13% of high school girls purge
* 30-40% of junior high girls worry about weight
* 40% of 9-year-old girls have dieted
* 5-year-old girls are concerned about diet


More statisitcs on eating disorders:
http://www.eatingdisorderscoalition.org/reports/statistics.html

Answer 2

I am affected by it currently.

No, I am not currently barfing but because I did for years and years...but now I suffer from the rapid heart rate and the nasty teeth which were rotted by the stomach acids going back up my throat and out my mouth. Therefore, I am paying for major dental work. My old fillings falling out from those once ruined teeth. I now need root canals, crowns or bridges.

All because I thought I was fat and needed to lose weight, it was a stupid addiction. I couldn't stop binging and barfing. I barfed several times a day. Didn't even need to stick my finger down my throat after awhile.

So if you are currently doing it, is it worth it? Those occassional popped blood vessels in your eyes? The nasty breath? The excuses that you need to go to the bathroom often? Knowing how many minutes you have after each thing you eat before it starts to digest? Knowing which thing to eat first or last because you know which will be easier to come back up? How much money are you wasting on those feeding frenzy binges of junk food? You are ruining your beautiful body.

I am 38 years old. I am still affected by bulimia although I haven't barfed for many years.

Answer 3

A. There are two types of bulimia nervosa:

1. Purging

2. Nonpurging

B. It occurs in 0.5% to 2.0% of adolescents and young adult women.

Facts About Anorexia Nervosa:

A. There are two types of Anorexia Nervosa:

1. Restrictive type

2. Binge eating/purging type.

B. 90-95% of individuals with Anorexia Nervosa are female.

C. It affects about 1 in 2400 adolescents.

D. It typically develops in early to mid-adolescents.

E. Psychological problems are displaced onto food.

Answer 4

In America close to one million people .

Answer 5

a lot, mostly girls.