What is the difference between anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa?
A) Anorexics engage in compulsive exercising and bulimics only consume empty calories.
B) Bulimics don't consume very many calories and anorexics vomit the calories they do consume.
C) Anorexics use laxatives to purge calories and bulimics exercise compulsively to burn calories.
D) Bulimics consume large numbers of calories in one sitting and anorexics don't.

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Bulimia nervosa is characterized by episodes of binge eating followed by compensatory behaviors such as vomiting, while anorexia nervosa involves restriction of calorie intake leading to significantly low body weight.

What Is the Difference Between Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia Nervosa