Eating disorder is an obsession with one's body weight and food injurious to health. Although everyone sometimes been worrying about her weight, but in patients with eating disorders, they do everything they can (even extreme ones) to avoid weight gain.
In the U.S. according to sources from the National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders, there are 8 million people with eating disorders, of which 90% are women. Eating disorders can affect anyone young and old, rich, poor and usually start from the beginning of adolescence, but can also start from an early age as the age of 8 years.
Eating disorders are emotional and physical disorders that could endanger the lives of people with the sufferer. The disorder include extreme emotions and behavior disorders as well as the customs that surround the issue of weight gain and food.
The following types of eating disorders are taken from nationaleatingdisorders.org :
Anorexia Nervosa
Is an eating disorder where sufferers deliberately to starve in order to reduce excessive weight. Usually people with anorexia nervosa always feel fat even though she looked very skinny. Anorexia nervosa has been widely claimed many victims in the international fashion world such as the death of Brazilian models, Ana Carolina Reston and French models, Isabelle Caro.
Bulimia Nervosa
People with bulimia nervosa is characterized by overeating phase (more commonly eaten than one) then followed by a phase of cleanup or removal by means of vomit, abuse laxatives or exercise excessively. The late princess Diana had admitted that he too had experienced bulimia nervosa.
Eating without control (binge eating / compulsive overeating)
People with binge eating is usually characterized by periods of uncontrolled eating, compulsive and continuously exceed the limits a sense of 'fullness'. Although there is no phase of the cleaning / spending, the sufferer can do to stop eating all of a sudden or a strict diet. People with "binge eating" too often feel embarrassed or abused every time after eating. They also usually also deal with emotional problems like anxiety, depression and loneliness, which can contribute to the occurrence of eating disorders. Weight patients with "binge eating" may vary between normal, moderate to severe obese.
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