Overview

An eating disorder is a compulsion to eat, or avoid eating, that negatively affects both one's physical and mental health. Eating disorders are all encompassing. They affect every part of the person's life. According to the authors of Surviving an Eating Disorder, "feelings about work, school, relationships, day-to-day activities and one's experience of emotional well being are determined by what has or has not been eaten or by a number on a scale." Anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa are the most common eating disorders generally recognized by medical classification schemes, with a significant diagnostic overlap between the two. Together, they affect an estimated 5-7% of females in the United States during their lifetimes. There is a third type of eating disorder currently being investigated and defined - Binge Eating Disorder. This is a chronic condition that occurs when an individual consumes huge amounts of food during a brief period of time and feels totally out of control and unable to stop their eating. It can lead to serious health conditions such as morbid obesity, diabetes, hypertension, and cardiovascular disease.

Wednesday, October 7, 2009

Healthy Weight Loss

Avoiding any of the eating disorder, discussed in this article, can make a world of difference to your health. The eating disorder can be categorized into three types, namely:

1. Bulimia Overeating: This is a type of eating habit, whereby you take in excess of food, and in order to avoid been overweight, you get rid of the excess food taken in by fasting, purging, vomiting or by taking laxatives in greater- than -recommended doses or you engage in strenuous exercise.

2. Anorexics Overeating: This is a eating habit whereby you often express fear of gaining weight and thus you often see yourself as becoming fat. Due to this, you normally take in little food. And sometime, if the need arise to you; you get rid of excess food either by purging, vomiting, fasting or excessive exercise. The true position is that you are under weight, by the virtue of the fact that you take in little food often.

3. Compulsive Overeating: This is characterized by a pattern of binge eating followed by dieting. In this type of eating disorder, you tend to lose the weight you gain in the binge phase, by dieting.

These eating disorders mentioned above, have a negative impact on your normal life style and a direct effect on you, both emotionally and spiritually. When we take in little or no food, for the fear of gaining weight, as the case with Anorexics, this may lead to severe consequences, since we cease to supply the body with the necessary nutrients its needs for proper functioning.

Fasting, induce vomiting, excess exercise and taking laxatives in excess, can affect your body in one way or the other, by producing an unhealthy side effect. While compulsive overeating will make you overweight.



Autor: Ikechukwu Austine Onyeka

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Added: October 7, 2009
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