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Does your teen have an eating disorder? What you need to know! Getting people with anorexia to gain weight and eat more is the number one thing in helping them get better. Increasing weight for anorexics improves their health and helps them think clearly. There is a strong connection in anorexia between weight and thoughts: the lower the weight goes their thoughts get vaguer about their body image and the whole of reality. Anorexia nervosa is a type of eating disorder. Individuals who suffer from anorexia are so afraid of putting on weight that they drastically cut back on the amount of food they eat and risk becoming dangerously thin. There have been thousands of studies that reveal the importance of having essential fats (Omega-3s) in our diet. A lot of people think "FAT" oh no! Please let me explain. I knew absolutely nothing about anorexia, except what a had read about movie stars who supposedly had all these kinds of problems through the stress of keeping thin for their careers, but Amy was only a little girl. Well, I guess it was 11 years ago I started to notice something was not right with Amy. She had just turned 13 when I caught her always looking at herself in the mirror... After major disappointment at school when she failed to be picked to perform in tge Christams extravaganza Amy was inconsolable she screamed and yelled and cried and cried. I tried to consol her by saying there is always next year, it was not your fault you were sick, but nothing could make her stop being upset. The mystery of anorexia biochemical cause could be unraveled. But there are other causes involved in developing anorexia. Eating disorders are associated with emotional and personality disorders and even with a biologic susceptibility, and a culture in which there is an overabundance of food and obsession with thinness Stress is a state produced by a change in the environment that is perceived as challenging threatening or damaging to the person’s dynamic balance or equilibrium. There is an actual or perceived imbalance in the person’s ability to meet the demands of the new situation. The change or stimulus that evokes this state is the stressor. The nature of the stressor is variable, i.e. an event or change that will produce stress in one person will be neutral for another, and even that may produce at one time and place for one person may not do so for the same person at another time and place. A person appraises and copes with changing situations. The desired goal is adaptation or adjustment to the energy and ability to meet new demands. This stress coping process, a compensatory process with physiologic and psychologic components. As children progress into their teen years, they become concerned about their appearance. A child’s body and hormones change during puberty. Many children at this point begin to feel self-conscious about their shape and size and their outlook on life can change for the worse. New social pressures are also introduced into a child’s life with the onset of puberty. Pro anorexia is a controversial matter, referring to the pro-active character of anorexics’ lifestyles. There are lots of pro anorexia web sites throughout the Internet that provide feedback to people with anorexia. Unhealthy eating patterns lead to an eating disorder. This is very common among teenage girls who are obsessed about becoming thin, and start harming their body by not eating. Poor nutrition harms their body organs. This is a very serious problem as it affects them mentally as well, and leads to depression and anxiety. 1 | ||
