What is the difference between "Anorexia" and "Bulimia"?

Answer 1

"Anorexia is an illness that occurs mainly in teenage girls, although increasingly boys suffer from it too. People with anorexia are obsessed with being thin and are terrified of gaining weight. As a result, they starve themselves (especially avoiding high-calorie foods), and exercise obsessively until they become extremely thin and well below the normal weight for their age and height.

Bulimia usually affects women in their early to mid-twenties. People with bulimia are also terrified of gaining weight, but they can usually keep within a normal weight. This is because they eat very large amounts of fattening food (called 'bingeing'), but then get rid of that food by vomiting or by taking laxatives."

Answer 2

anorexia (n.) Loss of appetite, especially as a result of disease.
anorexia (n.) Anorexia nervosa. (this is a decease)

bulimia (n.) An eating disorder, common especially among young women of normal or nearly normal weight, that is characterized by episodic binge eating and followed by feelings of guilt, depression, and self-condemnation. It is often associated with measures taken to prevent weight gain, such as self-induced vomiting, the use of laxatives, dieting, or fasting. Also called bulimarexia, bulimia nervous
bulimia (n.) Excessive or insatiable appetite


basically anorexia is when you don't eat your just to disgusted with yourself, and bulimia is when you eat but you can't keep anything in your tummy and you either take laxatives or puke

Answer 3

anorexia- you eat fewer than 500 calories a day
bulimia- you schedule binges where you eat as much as you possibly can, then puke it all out

Someone with anorexia or bulimia may have similar tendencies though, like obsessing over food, developing eating rituals, exercising an unhealthy amount, having a distorted body image, low self esteem, depression, secrecy and isolating themself from others.

Answer 4

great question madhavi:) yOU know though these words sound synonimous but still there lies a "deep" difference !! Happiness can be found of things which may not even be beneficial to our spiritual or psychological aspect like we may go out & have our favourite dish & clothes etc., we would feel happy. But satisfaction comes from a kind of achievent, if we get good grades in studies we would get a positive feeling that says "hard word paid off" now thats more beneficial isn't it ;p[ Now peace.... I think it depends on what attitude we adopt towads the "activities" we do for "happiness" or either "satisfaction", peace actually exist in our self, it just has to be found by us. A person of ignorance might feel peace while a hard worker could be strresed. It can be even oposite to that . So peace needs to found by us.

Answer 5

There are many types of each. Anorexics either dont eat at all, or eat very small amounts of food. (like a handful of grapes, and that's it for the whole day) Bulemics can binge and purge (eat and puke), they can eat a lot for a day, and then nothing for a week... there is also a form of these eating disorders where the person works out excessively, eats very little, and drinks only water.

Answer 6

WIth anorexia you don't eat (or hardly eat at all), with bulimia you eat but then make yourself puke it up.

Answer 7

Anorexia: you starve yourself to death, extreme excersicing.
Bulimia: you eat everything, then make yourself throw up in the toilet.
Either one is a serious condition and need professional help.

Answer 8

anorexia is when u don't eat at all
Belimia(spelling?) is when u eat and then throw it up, and this causes a lot of problems with the esophogas(spelling LOL)

Answer 9

anorexia - you just don't eat
bulimia - you stuff yourself - and then puke it up.

Answer 10

One is you just don't eat, the other is you gorge and puke (binge and purge)