Bulimia is similar in some ways to anorexia. Both eating disorders are linked to concerns toward weight and diet. These diseases affect the life, physical and psychological health of people. The anorexic people starve willful and dangerous manner, causing extreme weight loss, the bulimics have uncontrolled episodes of binge eating (overeating) followed by purging behaviors such as induced vomiting, the excessive exercise, fasting, laxatives, and all sorts of other methods, always with the same purpose: "to eliminate calories expended in food control losses."