- The warning signs of eating disorders
Eating disorders affect currently about 8 million Americans. Make sure you know the signs and warning symptoms.
The two predominant eating disorder known as anorexia nervosa and bulimia.
- Anorexia is characterized by a refusal to maintain minimal body weight normal
- Bulimia is characterized by repeated episodes of binge eating followed by inappropriate compensatory behaviors such as vomiting self-induced. misuse of laxatives, diuretics or other drugs; young; or excessive exercise.
- A disturbance in perception of body shape and weight is a fundamental component of both disorders.
Eating disorders are the result of a combination of behavioral, biological, emotional, psychological and social. Those suffering from food disorders usually "feel fat" and consider themselves as overweight, even in spite of semi-starvation or malnutrition life threatening. In the early stages of these disorders, deny they have a problem. People with anorexia and bulimia tend to be perfectionists, suffer from low self-esteem, and are extremely critical of themselves and their bodies.
Eating disorders frequently co-occur with other psychiatric disorders such as depression, substance abuse, anxiety and obsessive compulsive disorders. Childhood traumas such as sexual abuse may increase the risk of developing these disorders. Many studies indicate that brain chemical imbalances can also be a factor in eating disorders
There are other medical and psychiatric conditions share similar symptoms, but the following may be signs warning of an eating disorder :.
- weight at least 15% less than the normal, healthy weight expected for this high
- intense fear of gaining weight or becoming fat, even though underweight
- self-evaluation unduly influenced by body shape and weight
- the denial of the seriousness of current low body weight
- frequent and fast food binges, marked by a lack of control
- the regular induction vomiting or using laxatives to expel food intake and lose weight
- extreme dieting and / or exercise between binging episodes
- in women, the termination of three or more menstrual consecutive
- Brittle texture of hair and nails
- dry skin with a yellowish tint
- chronically inflamed sore throat, tooth enamel wear, and / or gastro esophageal reflux
Sources: National Institute of mental health, Academy for eating disorders, American Psychiatric Association, the National eating disorders Association, American Academy of Child Psychiatry, and Washington and Shady Grove Adventist hospitals. For more information, consult your doctor.
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