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Eating Disorder Threatens Young Women

Posted on | April 5, 2008 | Comments Off

BE is a desire most slender women. No doubt, some of them became confused when the arm, abdomen, or thighs already appear gelambir fat. Moreover, obesity is also synonymous with health problems.

Conversely, those judged more beautiful slim, attractive views, and even considered more healthy. As a result, many people in the daily diet schedule for a slim body shape. There are people who want to diet slowly, there are also people who want to be thin with instant way.

Only, not a few misguided people on diets. They think eating is the culprit of obesity. To lose weight, then reduce their food intake drastically. To reduce weight, reduce their food intake drastically. And, in fact is to manage the intake of dietary calories we consume

How to reduce food intake today much menggejala is excessive fasting or with spit-eaten food. If you are around anyone doing this in his diet, “Can they suspected of having eating disorders or eating disorder,” says professor of the Faculty of Psychology, University of Indonesia Sarlito Wirawan Sarwono.

Understandably, more and people with eating disorders like this more and more. According to the research of Robert Koch Institute in 2008, every fifth of European citizens aged between 11 to 17 years showed symptoms of eating disorders occur them.

Targeting young women
Agreed, Sarlito said, young women are more prone to eating disorders compared with adult women or even men. “For among them, images of beautiful women should be slim,” said Sarlito.

There are two types of eating disorders is well known, namely anorexia nervosa and bulimia. Anorexia is holding the food into the body for fear of being fed and fat. People with anorexia usually will not eat, though hunger and appetite is not disturbed. If eaten, they are usually just a little

Bulimia have different characteristics. People with bulimia usually brings back food that was eaten by scraping the throat and stimulating-nausea. They also often use laxatives to remove the food from the body as soon as possible.

Weight eating disorder sufferers are usually very mild, even to below normal. In addition to thin, eating disorder sufferers were also seen to have thin hair and nails, and dry skin.

Sarlito rate, usually those suffering from anorexia and bulimia is more caused by psychological factors. They are not confident with his body. Unfortunately, they often deny being affected by interference.

“But, they will continue to refuse food even though their bodies have become very thin,” he said. To stop it, the patient must be taken to a psychiatrist and combined with medical treatment. Encouragement from family and friends are also needed to increase self-confidence again.

However, Suhanto Kasmali, Head of Medical Services Division Dharmais Hospital, East Jakarta, adding that weight can dramatically decreased as well as organ dysfunction or an infection in the body.

“It can also cause anorexia,” he said. For that, “They should be immediately taken to the hospital for unknown causes.

Rarely examined, choose suicide
During the beautiful paradigm was identical to the slim faded, then anorexia and bulimia sufferers will also continue to grow. Once one of the research conclusions Royal College of Psychiatrists in the UK.

During the year 2009 and then, the study says that women are more often affected by eating disorders than men. In the study mentioned: the body of the 1000 women suffer from eating disorders.

In men, only one of 1,000 men suffering from this disturbance. This is also reinforced calculations Eating Disorder Association, namely; as many as 1.15 million British people suffer from eating disorders throughout 2009.

Unfortunately, only about 60,000 to 90,000 are undergoing restoration and treatment. In fact, in a study of patients eating storage in the United States, as much as 15% of those with anorexia die of suicide, infections, digestive problems, and malnutrition aka nutritional deficiencies.

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