eating disorders

Eating disorders

Eating disorders are a mental and physical illness that affect daily life, it is a constant obsession with weight, food and body shape.The persons who have this illness usually have a wrong idea of their body and want to be thinner.This illness is more common in women than in men.

What are eating disorders?

The two most common disorders are anorexia and bulimia.

• Anorexia nervosa.
• Bulimia nervosa.
• Binge eating disorder.
• Pica.
• Rumination disorder.
• Restrictive food intake disorder.

Types of eating disorders

The people that have anorexia are very afraid of gaining weight even if their weight is low,they have a distorted imagen of them that make them feel bad with their body shape.For lose weight they restrict the food portions,count all the calories that consume, and do a lot of exercise for burn calories, also can take laxatives for remove that they have eating.The anorexia is the most dangerous eating disorder, with more risk of dying.

Anorexia nervosa

The persons with anorexia are often underweight, on the other hand people with bulimia usually have a normal weight ot higher.

• Excessive weight lose.
• Fatigue.
• Insomnia.
• Dizziness or fainting.
• Hair loss.
• Dehydration.
• Irregular heart rythm.

Symptoms of anorexia

The people that have bulimia also have the fear of gaining weight, and used dengareus metods for not gain weight.Usually the people with bulimia have binge eating episodes but then throw up for remove all the food that they have eating, also can take laxatives or do exercise.

Bulimia nervosa

• Dehydration
• Tooth decay caused by stomatch acids.
• Digestives problems,it can even cause stomach ulcers.
• Irregular heart rythm.

Symptoms of bulimia

There isn't an speific cause for eating disorders.Can be caused by genetics or chilhood trauma...Usually are caused by beauty standars, and more now that is something we can see a lot in social media.

Causes of eating diosrders