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Anorexia and Bulimia a) Anorexics will have a very low body weight due to eating little food, often no more than 600 calories a day. Body weight is typically less than 85% of that expected. Someone with anorexia will have a very distorted attitude about their body weight, eating and food and these thoughts will override hunger, reassurances and threats. Thoughts about bodyweight may exaggerate its importance or minimise the dangers if being considerably underweight. For anorexia to be diagnosed there must be no known medical illnesses that could account for the weight loss and no known psychiatric disorder that may distort thinking about weight, such as obsessive-compulsive and phobic neuroses. b) An individual with bulimia nervosa will frequently binge on food and feel very out of control about their eating. Bingeing involves consuming much more food than most people would consume in that amount of time and in one binge the bulimic...

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