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Expert Q&A
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| By Eve Eliot Eating Disorder Expert | ||
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We were told that our 19-year-old daughter is bulimic, though she does not make herself vomit. Can this be?
Bulimia includes behaviors such as fasting to make up for ingested calories and exercising to burn them off, as well as purging by vomiting. The person who made this observation about your daughter and named her pattern "bulimia" was probably referring to those behaviors rather than that of induced vomiting."
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