Bulimia and Anorexia: a disease that affects us all
These two diseases, bulimia and anorexia, which mainly affect women, are still threatening today, despite campaigns to raise public awareness that have occurred in recent years.
Generally girls are prey to these evils from the body models that are on TV and in magazines, but also affected older women and even men. Is that nobody is safe from the desire to have a perfect body, but that really is the desire to have a body impossible and unreal.
Anorexic women are characterized by fasting for a number of hours, and their diet is based on lettuce leaves and water. They are very sociable, as they are permanently lack the energy to enjoy activities with others. They are also thinking of the diet throughout the day, that prevents them from talking about other subjects and have a normal life. Apparently they are extremely thin, gaunt and haggard, a far cry to be beautiful. Read more
Care for people with eating disorders
It often requires a multidisciplinary treatment nutritionist, psychiatrist and psychologist, due to the interplay psychic / physical being presented. The delicacy of the problem is that dealing with a food addiction is not something we can banish from our lives like a drug, since we need to feed several times per day. The key lies in establishing a healthy relationship with food.
Among the treatment options we have the cognitive-behavioral psychotherapy, rehabilitation and food motivate the individual to exercise, to come into contact with your body and more able to control it.
It is important not to count calories, they are not concentrated in the fat or property of food itself, but should also pay attention to what is happening inside of one, how much food will be consumed and how they will feel in the stomach, how much food is actually needed. Concentrate on the physical signs that your body emits, learning to listen and stop when you’re moderately full. Attention should be paid to the real hunger signal.
There can be no forbidden foods, because if you do this will be more difficult to maintain in order to listen to the body to generate anxiety by deprivation, we must consciously give us permission to eat what we want. Read more
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