Eating Disorders
Eating can be controlled or affected by a range of factors, such as appetite, the types and quantities of foods available, family, peer, and cultural practices or pressures, eating habits, and voluntary desires to control eating.
Eating Disorders are serious disturbances in eating behavior, such as extreme and unhealthy food intake reduction or severe overeating. In addition to the eating aspects, those who suffer from Eating Disorders in other ways. For example, they may also have feelings of distress, depression, or are extremely concerned about their body shape or weight.
In today's society, current fashion trends, sales campaigns for special foods, and various activities and professions promote an often unrealistically lean body type, where body weight is leaner than that needed or recommended for health reasons.
These pressures can induce people to eat less than the recommended amounts, and lead to a range of eating disorders. Researchers continue to investigate the link between voluntary behaviors, such as eating smaller or larger amounts of food than normal, and the time when such activities move beyond the person's control and develop into an Eating Disorder.
Eating Disorders frequently develop during adolescence or early adulthood. However, recent research suggests that their onset can also occur during childhood or later in adulthood.
Eating disorders frequently occur in conjunction with other psychiatric disorders, such as depression, substance abuse, and anxiety disorders.
Females are much more likely than males to develop an eating disorder. For example, approximately one-sixth of people with Anorexia or Bulimia are male, and approximately one-third of people with Binge-Eating Disorder are male.
People with eating disorders may experience a range of serious physical health complications, including serious heart conditions and kidney failure which may lead to death.
It is important to note that Eating Disorders are not due to a failure of will or behavior. In fact, Eating Disorders are now known to be real, treatable medical illnesses in which certain harmful eating patterns become dominant. Recognition of eating disorders as real and treatable diseases is very important.
Appetite control and the affect of prolonged overeating or starvation is a highly complex area, and research is continuing in these areas. Eventually, such research may lead to new and improved treatments for eating disorders.
Eating disorders are not new illnesses. They have been present in one form or another for centuries.
The main types of Eating Disorders are:
Ø Anorexia
Ø Bulimia
Ø Binge-Eating Disorder
Anorexia
Anorexia (also known as Anorexia Nervosa), involves a severe restriction of food intake, usually due to an intense fear of getting fat, that can cause extreme weight loss to unhealthy or even deadly levels.People with Anorexia see themselves as being overweight, even though they often are underweight or even dangerously underweight. In addition, the entire process of eating becomes an obsession, and unusual eating habits develop.
Anorexia is characterized by the following signs and symptoms:
-Repeatedly checking body weight during a single day.
-Severe restriction of food intake.
-Loss of body weight to an unhealthy level.
-Unusual eating habits, such as avoiding food and meals, picking out only a few foods and eating these in very small quantities, or carefully weighing and portioning food.
-Delayed onset or loss of menstrual periods (females).
-An intense fear of gaining weight or getting fat, and/or losing control of eating.
-Often a disturbed body image is also associated with Anorexia, for example:
o Still regarding ones-self as being fat despite being quite underweight.
o Undue influence of body weight or shape on self-evaluation.
o Denial of having a low body weight.
o Denial of the seriousness of the current low body weight.
- Resistance to maintaining a body weight above the recommended minimum weight for the person's age, sex, and height.
-Extreme attempts to control their weight by one or more of the following unhealthy and potentially dangerous methods:
o self induced vomiting,
o misuse of laxatives,
o misuse of fluid pills (diuretics),
o misuse of diet pills,
o misuse of enemas,
o intense, excessive and compulsive exercise, and/or,
o periods of overly strict dieting or fasting.
In addition to the signs and symptoms for each type of Eating Disorder, a range of warning signs can also indicate the possible development of an Eating Disorder.
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Bulimia
Bulimia (also known as Bulimia Nervosa), is characterized by an over-preoccupation with food and weight, which results in out-of-control eating patterns, including binge eating and then compensating (or over compensating) for the binge eating.Because compensatory behavior follows the binge-eating episodes, people with Bulimia usually weigh within the normal range for their age, sex, and height.
People with Bulimia often perform the binge eating and compensatory behaviors in secret, feeling disgusted and ashamed when they binge, yet relieved once they purge.
Bulimia is characterized by an over-preoccupation with food and weight, which results in various out-of-control eating patterns, such as:
* Binge eating, which involves the consumption of large amounts of food within a short period of time. These usually occur secretly, and the person may feel a sense of loss of control and shame following these episodes.
* Extreme attempts to compensate for these binges and avoid weight gain by one or more of the following unhealthy and potentially dangerous methods:
o self induced vomiting,
o misuse of laxatives,
o misuse of fluid pills (diuretics),
o misuse of diet pills,
o misuse of enemas,
o intense, excessive and compulsive exercise, and/or,
o periods of overly strict dieting or fasting.
* Often a disturbed body image is also associated with Bulimia, for example:
o Undue influence of body weight or shape on self-evaluation.
The binge eating and inappropriate compensatory behaviors both occur, on average, at least twice a week.
Because compensatory behavior follows the binge-eating episodes, people with Bulimia usually weigh within the normal range for their age, sex, and height.
However, just as with Anorexia, people with Bulimia may fear weight gain, they may desire to lose weight, and they may feel intensely dissatisfied with their bodies.
People with Bulimia often perform the binge eating and compensatory behaviors in secret, feeling disgusted and ashamed when they binge, yet relieved once they purge.
In addition to the signs and symptoms for each type of Eating Disorder, a range of warning signs can also indicate the possible development of an Eating Disorder.
Binge-Eating Disorder
Because people with Binge-Eating Disorder experience frequent episodes of out-of-control over eating, without compensating for the excess calorie intake, many with the disorder are overweight or extremely obese for their age, sex, and height.
Feelings of self-disgust and shame associated with this illness can lead to bingeing again, creating a repeating cycle of binge eating.
Binge-Eating Disorder is characterized by:
* Recurring binge eating episodes, which involves the consumption of large amounts of food within a short period of time. The person may feel a sense of loss of control and shame following these episodes.
* Each binge-eating episode is associated with at least 3 of the following:
o Eating much more rapidly than normal.
o Eating until feeling uncomfortably full.
o Eating large amounts of food when not feeling physically hungry.
o Eating alone because of being embarrassed by how much one is eating;
o Feeling disgusted with oneself, distressed, depressed, or very guilty after overeating.
* Binge eating without any compensatory behavior, such as purging, fasting, or exercise.
* Overweight / Obese
Because people with Binge-Eating Disorder experience frequent episodes of out-of-control over eating, without compensating for the excess calorie intake, many with the disorder are overweight or extremely obese for their age, sex, and height.
Feelings of self-disgust and shame associated with this illness can lead to bingeing again, creating a repeating cycle of binge eating.
In addition to the signs and symptoms for each type of Eating Disorder, a range of warning signs can also indicate the possible development of an Eating Disorder.
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