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Purging behaviors are compensatory behaviors used by eating disorder patients, in which they forcibly eject food from their bodies in an effort to regulate their weight and/or physical appearance (Wade, 2017). Self-induced vomiting is the most common purging behavior (Neale & Hudson, 2020).
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The Center for Nutritional Psychology. (2024). Purging behaviors. In Encyclopedia of Nutritional Psychology. The Center for Nutritional Psychology.
https://www.nutritional-psychology.org/encyclopedia/purging-behaviors/
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