It happens that the jeans you like are only available in a smaller size, and due to disappointment you decided not to eat your favorite burger. Be careful! Bulimia and anorexia are the most common eating disorders in teenagers and women, who fall into their networks without realizing it. By learning, you are saving your life.
Eating disorders are those diseases that alter the people way of eating. You suffer from one of them when the body stop receiving the necessary nutrients to function properly, according to you height and lifestyle.
Anorexia and bulimia are the representatives par excellence due to the number of deaths and the subtle way of getting into women’s lives. Those who suffer from them, are obsessed with their weight, distrusting of their appearance, feeling ugly and falling into depression. These conditions leave traces in physical and mental health, and it is important to detect them on time.
Eating too much or too little, eating without being hungry or when you feel lonely and bored, worry about to know the calorie content of each food you eat, feel that the only thing you can control is your weight, exercising too much or never feel thin enough, are the main symptoms of this disease.
Also feeling guilty after eating or eating in secret, fear of increase some kilos, necessity on take a diet or feel that your life would be perfect if you lose weight. Is you have at least three of these behaviors, beware! You may be suffering from and eating disorder.
Those with anorexia forbear to eat solids and base their diet on liquids. The first symptoms are silent. Very rarely the sufferer realizes what happen. Physical abilities begin to fail, they get away from family and friends, and their confidence depends on what they eat.
Besides constant tiredness arise, fast weight loss, chills and feeling low body temperature, hair loss, irregular menstruation, and crying for trivial situations. The mood of sufferers depends on your weight.
Instead, people with bulimia eat a lot and eventually throw up by choice. Some of the behaviors easily detected. Eating a lot, sometimes secretly, visiting the bathroom to vomit after eating, self medication of laxatives or diuretics, constant weight changes, depression, irritability and dry or chapped lips, are some signs of this disease.
If you think that someone close to you or even yourself, have these diseases, it is important not to waste time and consult experts to establish the diagnosis and possible treatments. Prepare you mentally: those who suffer from these diseases never accept help because they always deny that they suffer.
For this, there are support groups that provide guidance about the best ways to treat the problem and be a cornerstone for rehabilitation of those with such disorders. Either diseases threatening life and bring unwavering consequences, sooner or later they will end up in a hospital room.
These eating disorders should be carefully addressed and people who suffer from these disorders need to receive constant support and love. I’m quite certain that with time and patience they can recover.