NUTRITIONAL DISORDER

Exists when a person's attitudes toward food and weight are such that feelings towards work , school , relationships, daily activities and emotions are determined by what has or has not been eaten or by a number in the scale.These people are characterized by:• Extremists in terms of food consumption, which may be manifested by severe weight loss, rapid weight gain , or significant fluctuations in weight.• This unhappy with their body image , often accompanied by a distorted perception of body signals (hunger , anger , fatigue, etc. . ) .• Unhealthy weight maintenance practices , such as: fasting, starvation , binging , indiscriminate use of laxatives, weight loss drugs , diuretics, and excessive exercise .• An irrational fear of gaining weight and an obsessive desire to lose weight.• The two most common disorders are Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia Nervosa . There are others such as compulsive or Compulsive Dining Exercised . Some people may have symptoms of more than one of these disorders .

       What Causes an Eating Disorder?

* Psychological Factors :People with eating disorders tend to be a perfectionist . They usually have a legitimate "courage" , but as always seeking approval and fear criticism , do not know how to express anger in a healthy way . I turn toward themselves provoking starvation or bingeing. * Family Factors :
 Within his family, tend to feel slighted , abandoned and alone. These families tend to be
 overprotective , rigid and ineffective conflict resolution . Usually require higher ranks of perfection and success.* Social Factors :
 Never before in history , women have been urged to be so thin. The TV , film , magazines are clear examples of all messages received by women of the "advantages" of staying thin.* Triggers:
 If a person is vulnerable to suffer from a disorder of the power to possess one or more of the above factors , sometimes all it takes to put into action the "avalanche " is an event that can not or do not know how to handle a trigger can be something as simple as harassment by being fat even something as desvastante as incest or rape .

                                            Signs alarm

Because now it seems that everyone is concerned about the weight , and given that most people have ever been on a diet , how can one say that a behavior toward food and weight is "normal" or should consider a problem that endangers the life and happiness ? Probably many express any of the following characteristics , but most people with eating disorders , meet several of them:• Loss of significant or extreme weight quickly without underlying disease.• Decrease in food intake.• Development of food rituals to : cut food into very small pieces , "play" with the food on your plate , chew each bite thousand times , skipping meals, not eating in front of others , always have an excuse for not be hungry , etc. .• Denial of being hungry .• Become more critical and intolerant of others.• Fluctuations in the character ( almost always in a bad mood or angry ) .• Excessive exercise .• When you eat , just basically choose foods low in fat or calories.• Says he / she is too fat ( a) , even though it obviously does not .• intense fear of gaining weight and obesity Fear.• detests specific parts of your body, especially breasts , abdomen , thighs, hips and buttocks.• Insists that does not feel good about yourself ( a) unless it is thin ( a) , but is never thin enough ( a) to be comfortable .• Has difficulty exposing their feelings.• Avoid socializing as much as possible .• Responds to confrontations about your mood , tears , tantrums or ignoring them .• When eating in excess, always looking for ways to get rid of calories (vomiting, exercise, medication ) .
 

 

                     TREATMENT

 

The eating disorders are treatable, and people can rehabilitate them. The recovery, however, is beyond help keep starvation, bingeing leave or let the purges (vomiting, laxatives, exercise, diuretics). To assume recovery, this should include establishing healthy eating patterns and weight, and the resolution of the medical, psychological, social and family problems that contributed to the disorder to develop.
  Successful treatment should be multidisciplinary, and is highly individualized. Treatment should begin with a medical assessment and continue the development of a plan that will include: individual psychotherapy, family therapy, couples therapy, group therapy, medication to improve depression, anxiety and related disorders, hospitalization, and advice nutrition.