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Article #297: Introduction To Eating Disorders

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Eating disorders are often described as range of physical health complications,
an outward expression of internal including serious heart conditions and
emotional pain and confusion. Eating kidney failure which may lead to death.
disorders afflict millions of people, Eating Disorders are about being
thousands of which will die from them convinced that your whole self-esteem is
yearly. There is good news though, eating hinged on. Eating Disorders are about
disorders can be beaten. An eating attempting to control your life and
disorder involves a distorted pattern of emotions through food/lack of food. A
thinking about food and size/weight: person with anorexia nervosa typically
there is a preoccupation and obsession starves himself or herself to be thin and
with food, as well as an issue of control experiences excessive weight loss,
or lack of control around food and its typically 15% below the weight that
consumption. Eating is controlled by many doctors consider ideal for his or her
factors, including appetite, food height and age. A child with anorexia or
availability, family, peer, and cultural bulimia may experience dehydration as
practices, and attempts at voluntary well as other medical complications.
control. Dieting to a body weight leaner Anorexia may affect a child's growth,
than needed for health is highly promoted bone mass, cause puberty delays, an
by current fashion trends, sales irregular heartbeat and blood pressure
campaigns for special foods, and in some problems, and gastrointestinal problems.
activities and professions. Eating Treatment of anorexia calls for a
disorders involve serious disturbances in specific program that involves three main
eating behavior, such as extreme and phases: (1) restoring weight lost to
unhealthy reduction of food intake or severe dieting and purging; (2) treating
severe overeating, as well as feelings of psychological disturbances such as
distress or extreme concern about body distortion of body image, low
shape or weight. self-esteem, and interpersonal conflicts;
These are also the three most common and (3) achieving long-term remission and
eating disorders. Eating disorders can rehabilitation, or full recovery.
cause heart and kidney problems and even Eating Disorders Treatment Tips
death.Eating disorders frequently 1. Treatment can include medical
co-occur with other psychiatric disorders supervision, nutritional counseling, and
such as depression, substance abuse, and therapy.
anxiety disorders. The main types of 2. Supportive group therapy may follow,
eating disorders are anorexia nervosa and and self-help groups within communities
bulimia nervosa. A third type, may provide ongoing support.
binge-eating disorder. Eating disorders 3. Behavioral therapy has proven
are not due to a failure of will or effective in achieving this goal.
behavior; rather, they are real, 4. Psychotherapy has proven effective in
treatable medical illnesses in which helping to prevent the eating disorder
certain maladaptive patterns of eating from recurring and in addressing issues
take on a life of their own. Eating that led to the disorder.
disorders frequently develop during 5. Family members or other trusted
adolescence or early adulthood, but some individuals can be helpful in ensuring.
reports indicate their onset can occur 6. Certain selective serotonin reuptake
during childhood or later in adulthood. inhibitors (SSRIs) have been shown to be
In addition, people who suffer from helpful for weight maintenance.
eating disorders can experience a wide






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