Eating disorders: Bulimia Nervosa vs Anorexia Nervosa
Do you know that the most of the young are not happy with their physical appearance?
Nowadays, teenagers deny their appearance because the majority of them think they are fat.
This is in part because what they see on TV, commercials and advertisements. Most of the teenagers see all the actors, actresses and models with a thin figure that makes them to think to be like they. But this kind of thinking will become a serious problem that can lead them to make unhealthy choices about food with damaging results to their health. Eating disorders are characterized by an abnormal attitude food that causes someone to change their eating habits and ...view middle of the document...
They also have a distorted evaluation of their own weight and body shape. In women the weight loss is accompanied by amenorrhea (failure to menstruate for at least three consecutive months). An estimated 5-20 percent of people with the disorder dies as the result of starvation or medical complications that are caused by low weight and a restricted diet. When anorexia nervosa is diagnostics a health professional also will determine whether the patient should also be diagnosed as having one of two types of illness: binge-eating/purging type or restricting type. The binge-eating/purging type is characterized by regular engagement in binge eating (eating of a significantly large amount of food during a given period of time) or purging induced vomiting or misuses of laxatives, diuretics, or enemas). The restricting type is characterized as unhealthy weight loss due to food restriction. About 90 percent of all people diagnosed with anorexia nervosa are women between the ages 12 and 25.
Anorexia nervosa is one of two types of eating disorders. The other is Bulimia nervosa which is characterized by binge eating followed by compensatory behavior such as self-induced vomiting, fasting, or excessive exercise. Bulimia is also defined by recurrent episodes of binge eating of large amounts of food and compensatory measures to control for weight gain. In bulimia body weight generally remains near or above normal. A report said that about 0.5-3.7 percent of women in the United States suffer from anorexia nervosa at some point in their life. Anorexia nervosa usually begins in adolescence or early adulthood.
