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What does the word bulimia mean bulimia?

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Bulimia is an eating disorder in which the person binges and purges. Binging constitutes that the person eats more then they can handle and purging is that they quickly get rid of that food. Either by throwing it up or by using laxatives to get it out through the form of diarrhea.

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