Question

Glenda eats chips and dips, burgers and fries, and a couple of shakes. After her eating she goes to the gym and does 90 minutes of aerobics, spends an hour on the stair stepper, and then does weights for another hour. She also does not eat for 72 hours. This set of assumptions would lead to a diagnosis of:

Answer 1

Bulimia Nervosa

Step-by-step explanation:

Bulimia Nervosa is a type of eating disorder in which an individual tends to over eat by eating very large amount of food, like in this case, she eats chips and dips, burgers and fries, and a couple of shakes all at once, and then it is followed by purging to get rid of the extra calories. Also, in this scenario she uses lots of exercise routines and not eating for the next 72 hours as a means of getting rid of the extra calories. Bulimia can lead to death in some cases due to excessive electrolyte imbalance in the body system. It is made up of continuous episodes of eating followed up by serious techniques and efforts in avoiding weights.