Eating disorders are a type of mental illness that affects mostly teenage girls, but it call affect boys as well.  Anorexia is a disease where a girl will starve herself while under the false impression that she is fat and ugly. Anorexia is dangerous because it leads to mal-nutrition which can lead to death.
Bulimia is a disease where a girl will "binge and purge" (eat a whole lot, and then throw up). Bulimia can also lead to mal-nutrition, but it also burns the esophagus, throat, and mouth as the acid from the stomach is pushed out. another way someone is Bulimic, is if they use laxatives after bingeing, which leads to mal-nutrition.

            If you have and eating disorder, please tell someone that you trust, your life may be in jeopardy.

            If you know someone who is, or who you suspect has an eating disorder, you should tell either their parents, or a teacher if you go to the same school.