What is anorexia?
It could be considered an alteration produced by bad habits or behaviors that involve eating habits. People that suffer this disease dedicate the most parts of their time talking about food and anything related with food. Worrying about food and the fear of gaining weight is the core of their sickness, in junction with the personal insecurity to confront the problem. Denying the sickness, and perceiving oneself as fat in any part of the body even though the personal appearance is of a walking skeleton. In women it causes menstrual irregularity and impotence in men
Symptoms:
1. Denying to maintain corporal weight above a normal minimum always trying to be al least 15% under the expected weight
2.Intense fear of gaining weight, even though weight is already insufficient
3. Distorted perception of weight, size or figure of ones body
4. In women, the absence of at least three consecutive menstrual cycles
Bulimia: As a symptom, it describes uncontrollable episodes of overeating. As a syndrome it makes reference to a consistent array of symptoms outlining a worry of weight and body structure, the lost of control about what is eaten and the adoption of strategies that counter affect their bulimic ways. The patient feels a need to ingest great amounts of food, generally of an elevated caloric content. Once finish eating, the patient foregoes into strong feelings of guilt. This is followed by auto induced vomiting.
Symptoms:
1. Recurrent episodes of overeating
2. A sensation of loss of control during the overeating episodes
3. The regular use of induced vomiting, laxatives or diuretics, strict diets or not eating, energetic exercising to prevent gaining weight
4. A minimum of at least two weekly episodes of overeating for two or three months
5. Exaggerated worries for personal weight and figure. Bulimics are continually obsessed with their appearance and they work extra hard to be as attractive possibly
6. A background of frequent diets. Lots of studies have revealed that almost all people that develop bulimia have tried frequently before to control body weight.
7. Depression symptoms, including melancholic or pessimist thinking, recurrent ideas of suicide, very little capacity to concentrate and a growing irritation.
8. Excessive fear to grow fat.
9. Secretly eating or as unnoticed as possible
10. Maintaining the least possible standard of body weight. Differently from anorexics, bulimics do not have gaunt figure that will betray them. Many anorexics develop bulimic
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