Do you think
that you look fat?
Have you ever looked in a fashion magazine and seen a lot of slim
models and after that felt that you are very fat and must loose
in weight? Do you know that it is often a person with a normal
body weight that gets eating disorders? Then you should read this
article about a very dangerous Disease - Bulimia nervosa.
Too many people think that they look fat and
do not feel comfortable with their own body. The confidence
subside and they maybe start to diet. After a while they maybe
have Bulimia nervosa, which is a very dangerous eating disorder.
They who have Bulimia nervosa are trying to loose weight, but
at the same time feel a very strong longing for candy and food
so in periods they are bingers. |
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The person has then a very big conflict between
the longing for food and the will to loose in weight. Often
the periods of bingeing is followed by shame, because the person
has been eating so much food. They have then lost the control
over the situation and to eat can cause a very big regret. To
solve the conflict, the person throw up all the food or use
laxative. There are many reasons to the disease. It can depend
on psychological and biological factors. It can even depend
on the slender beauty ideal that can affect the way that we
look on our own body. A study shows that disturbance in the
family or hard periods and incidents in our lives can also be
some of the factors. Here are some signs that you or somebody
in your nearness maybe is suffering by Bulimia nervosa. The
person is often starving herself a big part of |
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| Fashion magazines can
affect your vision of your body |
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the day, and after that she
can begin a binger attack. The person can also be afraid to
gain weight and take exercise exaggeratedly much, to use up
calories. Often the person who is suffering from Bulimia nervosa
does not want that somebody else will know about the problem,
and flush the washbasin so |
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nobody will hear when the person throws
up the food. The person can also get disturbances with the hormones
and do not necessarily loose in weight. Do you see somebody
with some of these symptoms, you most immediately contact a
person that can help your friend. The treatment of Bulimia nervosa
can consist of psychiatric therapy and sometimes help by a dietist
or help by a physiotherapist. It is all the better if the treatment
start as early as possible, because the chance to recover from
the Bulimia nervosa is bigger then. Is somebody in your school
suffering from Bulimia nervosa? |
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| Some people feel shame to eat food. |
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