NAME: NUR FARHANA BT ZULKIFLI MATRIC NO: UK 23533 PROGRAMME: BACHELOR OF SCIENCE (CHEMICAL SCIENCES)

TO AVOID BULIMIA NERVOSA Specific purpose: to persuade my audience to avoid bulimia nervosa Central idea: There are three effect of bulimia nervosa, physical, psychological and social and ethical. Introduction I. II.
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Do you like to eat? But you afraid to gain weight? If you answered yes to these questions, you need to pay attention to what Im talking about. Because you might suffer from bulimia nervosa.

(Transition: now, Ill begin by telling you what bulimia nervosa is) Body
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Bulimia nervosa is a disease and a type of eating disorder. It is when a person love to eat a lot of food very much but she/he feels that they are fat and want to be skinny. When they are hungry, they eat a lot of food. Then, they try to take it back by vomiting, over exercising, or using drugs. The people which suffer from bulimia nervosa are called bulimics.

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(Transition: next, we will explore the effect of bulimia nervosa)

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Firstly the person will get effect physically

1) The bulimics will always facing with chronic gastric and dehydration

that caused by vomiting.

2) Because vomit has a lot of acid in it, doing it a lot can burn the

person's mouth, throat, or teeth. 3) Which can leads to sore throat or bleeding in the throat.

4) Usually the bulimics will go to the bathroom after eating in order to

vomit and throw all what they have ate. Vomiting does not help to eliminate calories. 5) To get rid the extra weight they will over exercise vigorously and fasting.
6) The other physical effects are sleeping difficulties, hearing loss,

peptic ulcer and so on.

(Transition: after all of you has know the first effect, lets move to the second effect)

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Secondly is psychological effect

1) The bulimics always feels depression and anxiety because of poor

body image although they already thin and have a good body image.
2) It is because bad perception toward

themselves.

3) They also quite thinking of food but afraid to eat and gain weight.
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Dissatisfaction with weight and body shape which make them feel sad.

4) Usually they unable to eat with others because ashamed of their

poor image

(Transition: you can see that bulimia nervosa give a lot of effect to the bulimic psychologically. Lets proceed to the last effect which is social and ethical.

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Social and ethical

1) Besides physical and psychological effect, the bulimia nervosa

also gives social and ethical effect. 2) For example the bulimics always avoid their family and friends because they feel unacceptable to society and family.

3) The bulimics also refuse to appear in public or functions that

involve food.
4) This will intensify their stress although they create that situation.

Conclusion
I. For me, there is no use to become a bulimics because it only tortures

our body. II. I encourage you to avoid bulimia nervosa so that you can enjoy the healthy lifestyle. III. I think that all from me. Thank you for listening.

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