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Anorexia mental: the obsession de la minceur

Anorexia nervosa seems to boil down to a history of weight. Yet this is a real disease, which reflects a deep psychological disorder. It is all handled it better is detected early. Update on the eating disorder ...
Many teenage girls feel affected by weight issues. For some, it even becomes an obsession that makes them switch to the extreme anorexia. Slimming at all costs

Anorexics try to restrict their diet to lose weight while they are already thin or skinny. Quantities consumed are abnormally low, many foods, especially fats and sweets, are unsuccessful. These restrictions may be associated with the potomania, that is to say an excessive water consumption, and taking laxatives to control weight. Some anorexics also suffer from binge eating, during which, out of control, they swallow in a short time and without pleasure, enormous quantities of food. Then, they will, in most cases, willingly vomiting.
What are the consequences of anorexia nervosa?
An excessive weight loss leads to malnutrition, with loss of muscle mass. This can affect cardiac function (heart is a muscle), with arrhythmia and hypotension. People with anorexia are hypothermia, always very enthusiastic. On the digestive system, the evacuation of food from the stomach and intestinal transit is slow, which reinforces the lack of appetite. Immune defenses diminish, with an increased risk of infection. When body mass index falls below 13, undernutrition is very severe, below 11, the prognosis is at stake
there a cure for anorexia nervosa? At least one third
anorexics are doing well, recovering a normal weight and free of psychological disorders. Another third are preserved abnormal eating behavior, too many restrictions on access or bulimia, with persistent discomfort, an emotional life difficult. The last third develops poorly, to a severe malnutrition and chronic depression. Beyond 10 years of development, from 5 to 15% of patients died, 20% after 20 years. These alarming figures? Yet since the 1980s, eating disorders are becoming better known and treated by health care providers, psychiatrists, general practitioners, and dietitians. A So everyone be vigilant vis-à-vis its surroundings: more support is early, the better it works!

Do you suffer from eating disorders?

The eating disorders affect a growing proportion of large French. But where passengers and stop the disorders where the illness began? Here's a quick test, inspired by a publication by researchers at St Georges hospital in London. If you have a positive result on this test or you think you have a problem eating behavior, talk to your doctor !

Question 1: Do you ever happen to make you sick because you feel you have eaten too much?

Yes, often

Yes, occasionally No

Question 2: Are you worried about the idea of \u200b\u200bno longer controlling the amount of food that you eat ?

Often

Sometimes

Not

Question 3: Have you lost more than 7 kg during the last 3 months ?

Yes No

I do not know

Question 4: Do you find yourself big (big) while those around you said you loved too thin?

Often

Sometimes

Not

Question 5: Would you say that food dominates your life?

Absolutely

Partly

Not at all


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