Comparative essay

ººBulimia and Anorexiaºº

What can you do if you feel uncomfortable with you physical appearance? Nowadays there are several “solutions” for this question, you can go on a diet, do exercise, there some products for weight loss. But sometimes physical appearance is so excessive that there are many teenagers and young people mainly, who do not accept themselves and they attack their bodies in a cruel way. Exist two illnesses related with this social issue: Bulimia and Anorexia, both are eating disorders and they have the same causes; but they have a difference, the one is related to people’s behaviour towards food.

The fist characteristic ad similarity is that bulimia and anorexia are eating disorders. That is because in both cases the people who have them do not eat correctly. For example they throw away fats, flour and in general all the food that has a lot of calories. The reason is tat they are afraid of getting overweight.

The second similarity is the causes of these sufferings. Ono of these is “imitating an idol”; that is to follow the stereotypes “of the perfect girl” that TV and in general all the media shows us. An other cause is the social influence, for example when your friends or family tell you that are getting weight, or they tell you look fatter than before. The last cause is the lack of love, sometimes they feel alone they want to want somebody’s attention.

Finally one difference between bulimia and anorexia is the people’s behaviour towards food. When people have bulimia, they try to eat nothing. Later, they feel starving and ‘make a pig of themselves’. After that, they throw up all tat they had eaten, because the feel guilty, and at the end they consume a lot of laxatives. In contrast, the people who have anorexia stop eating little by little until they eat only a little lettuce or a few apples. They also exercise themselves in a excessive way.

As a conclusion, both are two eating disorders that have two similarities and one noticeable difference. But the goal of these sicknesses is weight loss no matter how. They are related with nonconformity of people’s body. The key is the self-stem. You had better love you, accept you, and take care about your health and life and of the people you love.