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    Bulimia nervosa has been documented throughout history, though it was not officially recognized until the 20th century. Ancient Greek and Roman cultures engaged in binging and purging for various reasons. In the 17th-19th centuries, overeating was documented but true bulimia nervosa with deliberate purging was rare. In the 1930s, up to 65% of patients admitted for anorexia nervosa were found to be purging, and case studies in the mid-1900s described what is now known as bulimia nervosa. The disorder rose in prevalence in the late 20th century as thin ideals emerged, and was officially included in the DSM-III in 1980.

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    Bulimia nervosa has been documented throughout history, though it was not officially recognized until the 20th century. Ancient Greek and Roman cultures engaged in binging and purging for various reasons. In the 17th-19th centuries, overeating was documented but true bulimia nervosa with deliberate purging was rare. In the 1930s, up to 65% of patients admitted for anorexia nervosa were found to be purging, and case studies in the mid-1900s described what is now known as bulimia nervosa. The disorder rose in prevalence in the late 20th century as thin ideals emerged, and was officially included in the DSM-III in 1980.

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    Bulimia nervosa has been documented throughout history, though it was not officially recognized until the 20th century. Ancient Greek and Roman cultures engaged in binging and purging for various reasons. In the 17th-19th centuries, overeating was documented but true bulimia nervosa with deliberate purging was rare. In the 1930s, up to 65% of patients admitted for anorexia nervosa were found to be purging, and case studies in the mid-1900s described what is now known as bulimia nervosa. The disorder rose in prevalence in the late 20th century as thin ideals emerged, and was officially included in the DSM-III in 1980.

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    HISTORY OF

    BULIMIA NERVOSA

    ETYMOLOGY
    The term bulimia
    comes from Greek
    ravenous hunger
    Literally, the scientific
    name of the disorder,
    bulimia nervosa,
    translate to nervous
    ravenous hunger.

    BEFORE THE 20th CENTURY


    Bulimia nervosa did not appear until 1979 where
    evidence suggests that binging and purging were
    popular in certain ancient cultures.
    The first documented account of behavior resembling
    bulimia nervosa was recorded in Xenophons Anabasis
    around 370 B.C, in which Greek soldiers purged
    themselves in the mountains of Asia Minor.
    Egypt: physicians recommended purging once a month
    for three days in order to preserve health. This practice
    stemmed from the belief that human diseases were
    caused by food itself.
    Rome: elite society members would vomit in order to
    make room in their stomachs for more food at all day
    banquets.
    Emperors Claudius and vitellius both were gluttonous
    and obese, and they often resorted to habitual purging.
    While the psychological disorder bulimia nervosa is
    relatively new, the word bulimia, signifying overeating,
    has been present for centuries.
    The BabylonTalmudreferenced practices of bulimia,
    yet scholars believe that this simply referred to
    overeating without the purging or the psychological
    implications bulimia nervosa.
    In fact, a search for evidence of bulimia nervosa from
    the 17th to late 19th century revealed that only a
    quarter of the overeating cases they examined actually
    vomited after the binges. There was no evidence of
    deliberate vomiting or an attempt to control weight.

    20th CENTURY
    At the turn of the century, bulimia (overeating)
    was described as a clinical symptom, but rarely in
    the context of weight control.Purging, however,
    was seen in anorexic patients and attributed to
    gastric pain rather than another method of
    weight control.
    In 1930, admissions of anorexia nervosa patients
    to theMayo Clinic from 1917 to 1929 were
    compiled. Fifty-five to sixty-five percent of these
    patients were reported to be voluntarily vomiting
    in order to relieve weight anxiety.Records show
    that purging for weight control continued
    throughout the mid-1900s. Several case studies
    from this era reveal patients suffering from the
    modern description of bulimia nervosa.
    An explanation for the increased instances of
    bulimic symptoms may be due to the 20th
    centurys new ideals of thinness.The shame of
    being fat emerged in the 1940s, when teasing
    remarks about weight became more common. The
    1950s, however, truly introduced the trend of an
    aspiration for thinness.
    In 1980, bulimia nervosa first appeared in
    theDSM-III.
    After its appearance in the DSM-III, there was a
    sudden rise in the documented incidences of
    bulimia nervosa. In the early 1980s, incidences of
    the disorder rose to about 40 in every 100,000
    people.This decreased to about 27 in every
    100,000 people at the end of the 1980s/early
    1990s.However, bulimia nervosas prevalence

    THE END

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