EATING DISORDERS

Hi guys ! For today's entry, me, Hadri and Usman will be talking about eating disorders. First thing you need to know is that this disorder is not gender-biased. It happens to females and also males too. Eating disorders are real, complex, and devastating conditions that can have serious consequences for health, productivity, and relationships. Eating disorders are serious, potentially life-threatening conditions that affect a person’s emotional and physical health.

The main reason is because they constantly feel INSECURE !!! They are not satisfied with their body shape and they are always being pressured by the judgemental society.

In the United States, 20 million women and 10 million men suffer from a clinically significant eating disorder at some time in their life, including anorexia nervosa, binge eating disorder and bulimia nervosa. Many individuals struggle with body dissatisfaction and the best-known contributor to the development of anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa is body dissatisfaction. By age 6, girls especially start to express concerns about their own weight or shape. 40-60% of elementary school girls (ages 6-12) are concerned about their weight or about becoming too fat.

BINGE EATING DISORDER

Binge eating disorder is a type of eating disorder where a person eat large quantities of food (often very quickly and to the point of discomfort) but without behaviors to prevent weight gain, such as self-induced vomiting. 

BULIMIA NERVOSA

Bulimia nervosa is a serious, potentially life-threatening eating disorder characterized by a cycle of bingeing and compensatory behaviors such as self-induced vomiting designed to undo or compensate for the effects of binge eating. Some of the symptoms of bulimia are frequent episodes of consuming very large amount of food followed by behaviors to prevent weight gain, such as self-induced vomiting, a feeling of being out of control during the binge-eating episodes and self-esteem overly related to body image.