Eating Disorders - Denise Szapiro, Martin Cohen, Leila Gelber, Katherine Grosman and Dan Gordon.

Eating disorders

An eating disorder is a condition when you eat in a bad way. There are many eating disorders and they are:
• Anorexia nervosa
• Bulimia nervosa
• Overweight
• Obesity
• Rickets
• Anemia
• Marasmo
• Kwashiorkor

Anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa are the most common eating disorders generally recognized by medical classification schemes.
Anorexia nervosa: it is when a person stops eating and starts a strict diet and does a lot of physical education to lose weight. Anorexics have a distort view of their body. Even when they are extremely thin, they see themselves as too fat. Low self – esteem and constant self – criticism cause anorexics to constantly fear losing control, and even consuming a small amount of food could be considered a loss of control.
Obesity: it is when a person gains too much weight, which is dangerous to their health.
Bulimia: it is when a person thinks he is very fat (but he isn’t). The people that have bulimia consume a lot of food and provoke vomits. They use laxatives. The appearance of bulimia nervosa often occurs during late adolescence or early adulthood. 90 Percent of bulimics are women. Roughly 70 percent of individuals who develop bulimia nervosa eventually recover.
Rickets: it is when a person doesn’t have Vitamin D, resulting in the deformity of the bones.
Anaemia: it is a condition of the blood when it has no iron.
Kwashiorkor: it is when a child is breastfed for a very long time and then she/he is weakened by a diet low in iron.


Tips

Our tips for people that suffer this eating disorders are:
• Consult your doctor, parents, friends, family, etc. for any inconvenience.

• Check your weight.

• Try to improve your diet gradually.