Risk Factors for Bulimia
Major risk factors for bulimia include:

• Poor body image—Young women give importance to slimness and beauty, influenced by media and unrealistic ideas. Hence, having a poor body image poses a major risk.
• Low self-esteem—Things that contribute to low self-esteem are depression, childhood abuse and critical home environment. Those who think themselves as useless, worthless and unattractive are at a risk.
• Diet—People who diet more are at risk. This deprivation of drastic dieting leads to binge eating and purging.
• Appearance-oriented professionals—Appearance-oriented professionals like ballet dancers, models, wrestlers, runners and actors who are under tremendous pressure may develop this disorder. 
• Changes of life—Major changes in life like physical changes of puberty, going away from college, break up of a relationship etc. attempt binging and purging to cope up with stress.
• Biological factors—Biological factors like eating disorder in families, heredity are responsible for this disorder.

Written by: Healthplus24 team
Date last modified: January 03, 2009

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