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| Anorexia |  Anorexia is an eating disorder when people starve themselves. It usually starts in teenagers with the beginning of puberty. Teens suffering from anorexia have extreme weight loss. Weight loss is usually 15% lower than normal person’s body weight. Teens suffering from anorexia are very thin, but they are sure that they are overweight. 1% of teenage girls in the USA develop anorexia nervosa and up to 10% may die in a result.
Anorexia is obtained by many ways. Some of the common methods used are immoderate exercise, taking of laxatives and not eating.Teenagers suffering from anorexia have an intense fear of becoming fat. Their eating habits develop from this fear. As a rule, anorexia affects adolescent girls. They desire to be attractive physically and sexually.
Anorexics continue to think that they are overweight even after they become extremely skinny, are very ill or close to death. They develop strange dieting habits such as refusing to eat in front of other people. Sometimes they prepare big meals for others but refuse to eat any of it.
People of higher socio-economic classes and people involved in activities where leanness is especially looked upon (theatre, dancing, distance running, etc.) is the category that suffers from anorexia more than others.
Symptoms of Anorexia
- Inconsistent body weight with age, build and height
- Use of extreme measures to lose weight
- Loss of at least 3 successive menstrual periods in girls and women
- Refusing or not wanting to eat in public
- Makes herself throw up
- Taking pills to urinate or have bowel movement
- Taking of diet pills
- Fear of gaining weight
- Constant weakness
- Fragile skin
- Shortness of breath
- Obsessiveness about taking of calories
- Talks about food and weight all the time
Medical Consequences of Anorexia
- mineral loss
- shrunken bones
- irregular heartbeat
- low body temperature
- failure of normal growth
- development of osteoporosis and bulimia nervosa harsh substances
Continual use of laxatives is harmful to the body. It outwears the bowel muscle and causes it to lessening in function. Some laxatives contain substances that may be reabsorbed onto your system.
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