Facts About Bulimia and Bulimics

Did you know:

1. Women who develop bulimia are more vulnerable to social pressures than their peers.
2. The average age of onset of bulimia nervosa is 18 - 19 years.
3. These years, when many women typically leave home to enter college or the work force, correspond to the times when many women are most dissatisfied with their bodies and diet most strenuously.
4. Most women who have the eating disorder are 10 - 47% heavier than their peers.
5. Binge eating usually starts during or after a period of restrictive dieting.
6. Purging behaviors (vomiting, overuse of enemas or laxatives, running 10 miles a day) usually begin about one year after bingeing.
7. Most women wait 6 - 7 years before seeking treatment for bulimia.

Judith Recommends

"How Good Do We Have To Be?: A New Understanding of Guilt and Forgiveness" by Harold S. Kushner (Little Brown, 1997).

The author of "When Bad Things Happen to Good People" reflects on perfection, guilt and forgiveness. This book will help man people struggling with bulimia and the people who love them.

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