Eating Disorder

Eating Disorders

The hunger and its effects on eating disorders affect many people all around the world. You can either hear about it or even know people around you who are suffering from having eating disorder. Eating disorder does not just affect your body but it does also have an effect on our minds. Throughout history there have been many eating patterns, where eating disorders was not just one affect but there were many others that include anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge eating. Anorexia is a fear of weight gain or becoming fat, even though the person might already be thin. The food intake is strictly limited, often to the point of life-threatening starvation. Bulimia is typically people who have normal body weight but even though their weight may fluctuate, people then tend to vomit, diuretic and even laxative abuse just to stay off the weight gain. Binge eating is when someone recurrently at least twice a week for a six month period indulges in bingeing behavior. Eating disorders are not just dangerous towards women like many people think but they are for all men, teens and even kids. Eating disorders are caused when people are not happy with how their body looks. You might see ads on television or have insecurity issues and then start to feel very insecure about how you look and feel, with that you tend to start trying to go through starving. That is how and some of the reason why people start to having issues that result to eating disorders. While eating disorder may seem to be towards food and weight, those suffering from them often try to use food and the control of food to cope with feelings and emotions that may otherwise seem overwhelming. For some people, dieting, binging and purging may begin as a way to cope with painful emotions and to feel in control of their life. Even though these behaviors will damage your physically and emotionally health and self-esteem. Gender differences in emotional processing and response have direct...