Dangers of Drunkorexia
Drunkorexia is a non-medical slang term used to describe the symptomatic behaviors of anorexia or bulimia when they are combined with alcohol abuse. While it is a relatively new term, and is not considered a diagnosis or classification by many treatment professionals, it does describe a problem that is faced by a large proportion of the population. Most commonly individuals with drunkorexia restrict food intake during the day, in an attempt to compensate for the calories they will consume later by drinking, in order to prevent weight gain. They may also hope that by avoiding food, they will become intoxicated more quickly because alcohol will be absorbed faster on an empty stomach. Finally, they may believe that alcohol will provide them with calories to replace the ones they avoided earlier in the day. However, alcohol has no nutritional value, and those calories are “empty calories.” Thus individuals who engage in this behavior are at risk for malnutrition and a host of other seriou
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