Eating disorders are illnesses commonly manifested with disturbances in food intake habits with excessive concerns on body weight and shape. These illnesses are caused by a combination of biological, psychological and cultural factors. Eating disorders can lead to physical and psychological complications. Psychiatric conditions such as obsessions, depression and anxiety is more prevalent to someone with eating disorder. A person who has an eating disorder feels accomplished when he looses weight. He might have a serious emotional problem and using weight loss to divert his attention in it.
Not everyone who diets or wishes to be thinner has an eating disorder. The most common type of eating disorders are anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge-eating disorder. U.S. statistics show that about 8 million Americans suffer from eating disorders. In a study conducted by the National Institute of Mental Health, it shows that 0.5 percent to 3.7 percent of women in the U.S. suffer from anorexia nervosa while 1.1 percent to 4.2 percent suffers from bulimia.
People with an anorexia nervosa starve themselves to become thinner thus restrict intake of calories. They are obsessed to becoming the thinnest person they can be. They have an intense fear of gaining weight and view themselves as fat in spite of being so thin or emaciated. Because of this, they may start isolating from friends and family. Anorexic people feel that dieting give them a sense of control over the world. The disorder may be their way of coping with negative emotions. People with anorexia deny their needs and suppress their feelings - even their need for eating and their feelings for hunger. What is surprising is that a person at the start of dieting do not plan to become anorexic. The process takes slowly. As he looses weight, he may set lower weight goals until weight loss have taken his way of life.
Bulimia nervosa, another serious eating disorder causes a person caught up in a dangerous cycle of binge eating and purging. People with bulimia often eat an enormous amount of food in a short period of time, automatically and out-of-control. In order to get rid of the excess calories they purge themselves like self-induces vomiting and use of laxative, excessive exercise or fasting. People suffering from bulimia had encountered unsuccessful dieting in the past and some have a history of anorexia nervosa. Eating disorders bulimia and nervosa are both associated with low self-esteem which worsens as the illnesses continue.
Not everyone who diets or wishes to be thinner has an eating disorder. The most common type of eating disorders are anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge-eating disorder. U.S. statistics show that about 8 million Americans suffer from eating disorders. In a study conducted by the National Institute of Mental Health, it shows that 0.5 percent to 3.7 percent of women in the U.S. suffer from anorexia nervosa while 1.1 percent to 4.2 percent suffers from bulimia.
People with an anorexia nervosa starve themselves to become thinner thus restrict intake of calories. They are obsessed to becoming the thinnest person they can be. They have an intense fear of gaining weight and view themselves as fat in spite of being so thin or emaciated. Because of this, they may start isolating from friends and family. Anorexic people feel that dieting give them a sense of control over the world. The disorder may be their way of coping with negative emotions. People with anorexia deny their needs and suppress their feelings - even their need for eating and their feelings for hunger. What is surprising is that a person at the start of dieting do not plan to become anorexic. The process takes slowly. As he looses weight, he may set lower weight goals until weight loss have taken his way of life.
Bulimia nervosa, another serious eating disorder causes a person caught up in a dangerous cycle of binge eating and purging. People with bulimia often eat an enormous amount of food in a short period of time, automatically and out-of-control. In order to get rid of the excess calories they purge themselves like self-induces vomiting and use of laxative, excessive exercise or fasting. People suffering from bulimia had encountered unsuccessful dieting in the past and some have a history of anorexia nervosa. Eating disorders bulimia and nervosa are both associated with low self-esteem which worsens as the illnesses continue.
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