Eating Disorders

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Andrés Adame (M)

Anorexia

Anorexia is a problem caused by low self-esteem, unhappy feelings, stress, anxiety and the need to control the emotions and life around the person. Anorexia is a negative way to express these feelings. It also usually starts making the person look fat and physically horribly, so they blame their physical condition and try to fix it by reducing their eating habits. Anorexia consists in the reduction of eating habits, until it comes to eating nothing at all, but still with the excess reduction of weight, the anorexic people still see themselves fat. Usually they refuse to eat meals with excuses, they start to see themselves constantly in the mirror and begin a high amount of exercise, and these are some symptoms of anorexia. Now we all know what it is, but what does it do to your body? Anorexia affects your whole body.

• The brain and nerves are affected, emotional state usually depressive
• Constant thinking about weight
• Chemical reactions in the brain are changed causing distraction, bad mood, lack of memory and fainting
• Hair gets weaker and thinner
• Blood pressure gets low, heart rate reduced, heart failure, muscles get weaker
• High risk of osteoporosis is involved
• Kidney stones, Failure
• Intestine failure
• Trouble getting pregnant and if pregnant high risk of losing the baby or the baby being born with health problems, period stops
• Lower resistance to illness
• Fatigue

Anorexia produces many negative effects to the body, but with work and dedication and special treatments, this can be solved providing a better health

Bulimia

Bulimia is a great problem in many teenagers, usually one gets involved with bulimia when they hear there is an easy way out of gaining weigh, an easy way in which you can eat anything and not gain a pound at all. Unfortunately this fact is true but it doesn’t mean it is a healthy way to stop eating problems. What is bulimia? It is when someone eats any amount of food and then immediately gets rid of it through very unhealthy methods as laxatives, vomiting, and pills among other methods. This process is extremely dangerous for someone’s health and there is a very high risk of death with a prolonged time being a bulimic. Bulimic people are extremely hard to detect them or know they are bulimic, usually medical studies can reveal these facts as the body shape of a bulimic person does not change so drastically. But still their emotional status change and they usually eat alone, go constantly to the bathroom after meals and they try to avoid eating with friends. What does bulimia causes to your body? Bulimia affects your whole body and here are some of the causes.

• Problems with teeth and gum
• Depression and low self esteem
• Anemia in blood
• Changing heart rates, low pulse, heart failure
• Dizziness
• Swelling cheeks
• Irritated, sore and rupture in throat and esophagus, blood in vomit
• Ulcers, stomach damage
• Fatigue
• In girls, periods stops or they become irregular
• Dehydratation, Dry Skin

These are some of the causes bulimia is able to cause to your body as well as many emotional reactions that may lead into the destruction of many relationships and getting away of society. Bulimia is an illness that can be cured with special treatments, psychological and physical. With proper eating habits, psychological help, work and dedication this illness can become cured.

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