{"id":4588,"date":"2022-06-21T08:44:51","date_gmt":"2022-06-21T08:44:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mdr.foobrdigital.com\/?p=4588"},"modified":"2022-06-21T08:44:51","modified_gmt":"2022-06-21T08:44:51","slug":"what-is-bulimia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mudassirbackup.infinitycodestudio.com\/index.php\/2022\/06\/21\/what-is-bulimia\/","title":{"rendered":"What Is Bulimia?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_1-0-7\">Bulimia nervosa is a\u00a0type of eating disorder\u00a0that is characterized by recurrent episodes of binge eating followed by compensatory behavior in order to prevent weight gain. This behavior is largely driven by a person&#8217;s perception of their body shape, size, and weight, which greatly influences their emotional well-being and sense of self-worth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_1-0-9\">Binge eating episodes are characterized by:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul id=\"mntl-sc-block_1-0-11\"><li>Eating a much larger amount of food than most people would eat in a similar period of time within any 2-hour period<\/li><li>Feeling that they can&#8217;t stop eating or control what or how much they&#8217;re eating<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_1-0-13\">Inappropriate compensatory behaviors to prevent weight gain may include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul id=\"mntl-sc-block_1-0-15\"><li>Self-induced vomiting<\/li><li>Inappropriate use of laxatives, diuretics, or other medications<\/li><li>Fasting<\/li><li>Excessive exercise<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_1-0-17\">These episodes occur on average two times per week for three months. They are further characterized as mild, moderate, or severe based on the number of compensatory behaviors each week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bulimia nervosa is a\u00a0type of eating disorder\u00a0that is characterized by recurrent episodes of binge eating followed by compensatory behavior in order to prevent weight gain. This behavior is largely driven by a person&#8217;s perception of their body shape, size, and weight, which greatly influences their emotional well-being and sense of self-worth. Binge eating episodes are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[696],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mudassirbackup.infinitycodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4588"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mudassirbackup.infinitycodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mudassirbackup.infinitycodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mudassirbackup.infinitycodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mudassirbackup.infinitycodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mudassirbackup.infinitycodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4588\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mudassirbackup.infinitycodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mudassirbackup.infinitycodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mudassirbackup.infinitycodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}