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Anorexia nervosa is an eating disorder with low body weight and obsession with body image, with marked weight gain. Anorexia nervosa is an eating disorder, serious, chronic and often fatal, which is defined by a refusal to maintain body weight at least 15 percent of the normal weight of an individual. People with this disorder, an intense fear of gaining weight and distorted body image. Eating insufficient or excessive training resulting in severe weight loss. Other important features of this disorder is an intense fear of gaining weight, a distorted body image, and amenorrhea. In fact, people with anorexia nervosa ignore hunger and thus control their desire to eat. This desire is not often eaten with the cooking of food or other to hide their personal space sublimation. Anorexia nervosa usually occurs in adolescence or adulthood. It is more common in women. People with anorexia nervosa usually lose weight by reducing total food intake and exercise excessively. Anorexia is also poor circulation are the temporal lobes, although since this finding does not correlate with current weight, it is possible that this is a train rather than risk an effect of starvation.

Anorexia nervosa often starts between the ages of 15 and 25, but can be in children 10 years and older to develop. Anorexia nervosa anorexia “in the popular media and scientific literature is often abbreviated. “You can limit a lot of people with this disorder in their consumption to less than 1,000 calories per day. Most avoid fattening foods high in calories to eliminate and meat. The diet of people with anorexia nervosa near total calories vegetables such as lettuce and carrots, or corn. People with anorexia nervosa develop strange eating habits such as cutting Mental food into small pieces and refused to eat in front of others, or fixing meals developed by others that they do not eat. nutrition obsessions and weight than ever for people with this disorder in their next encounter with food. diet. People who lose weight by dieting are often reinforced by positive comments of others and change their appearance. Symptoms can include weight loss is 15% or more below normal weight, abuse of laxatives, enemas or diuretics (water pills) in an effort to lose weight. Read the rest of this entry »

According to psychologist Gloria Marsellach “cognitive-behavioral therapy is often effective,” the objectives will be to restore the proper eating habits and that the patient obtains a satisfactory body image.

Individual therapy is needed to talk to the patient of the problems associated with self-esteem and its relationship with self-image.

In some cases when it is young family therapy is recommended.

Education on nutrition and exercise

At the beginning of the treatments used in some cases antidepressants and support groups.

In extreme cases hospitalization is needed if this was one of the famous Olsen twins.

Some practical advice

If you think you suffer from anorexia nervosa or you have a friend or relative with this problem can recommend:

1 – Go to the doctor to diagnose the disease
2 – Find support groups
3 – Keep a journal to vent and to establish patterns of behavior
4 – Seeking help in the church if you have
5 – Reinforce a positive image with real words: you look pretty, you’re a good friend, you are so good daughter

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Anorexia nervosa is a serious eating disorder. It usually affects young women but lately this also affects adult women. This linked to body image.
It begins innocently: advertising media indicate that the ultra-thin models and movie stars are the epitome of beauty and with it comes the success and happiness.

The famous have happiness and success because they are beautiful, this is the subliminal message that women received daily. Beauty = happiness. The anorexic is obsessed with wearing thin. Although it is thin it sees itself as’ not so thin as it should be, “the scale tells you that this skinny, clothing indicates that this thin, but she does not. The perception of the body is disrupted and the obsession just grows and leads to almost stop eating.

The causes of eating disorders may include:
1 – Low self-esteem
2 – Family life conflict
3 – Desire to escape and evade the responsibility
4 – Desire for control
5 – Preoccupation with body changes during puberty

Characteristics of anorexia
1 – Eating too little
2 – Not feeling hungry
3 – irregular menstrual periods
4 – Fear of growing
5 – Problems with concentration or memory
6 – fear of becoming fat
7 – Stiffness in preparing or planning meals
8 – False body awareness. She sees herself as fat even when everything indicates that this thin.
9 – a long period

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