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Anorexia Nervosa
An eating disorder whereby one suffers from a loss of appetite resulting in self-starvation
1,385 Questions
What can you do as a society to prevent eating disorders?
Society can do many things to prevent eating disorders. In societies where looks are highly valued, there are oustandingly more cases of eating disorders. People can stop focusing so much on looking thin and being beautiful and "perfect", and than can help to alleviate many of the causes of eating disorders. Also, ending bullying and teasing (especially about looks and weight) can help a lot, too.
Anorexia is a mind disease where people decide (subconsciously or consciously) to stop eating because they see themselves as too fat. Babies do NOT have this mental capacity, and if they do stop eating it's a metabolism problem.
How does anorexia effect the integumentary system?
Every body system is affected by anorexia. The immune system is weakened, internal organs are subject to stress and / or failure, menstruation can stop in women, brain function slows down, the skin will become dry and flaky, hair and nails will become dry and brittle and colorless / discolored, etc., just to name a few.
If you are not underweight but still purge almost everyday do you have a eating disorder?
Yes, if you are purging, you have an eating disorder. Period.
How do you prevent anorexia and bulimia?
Anorexia and bulimia, while eating disorders, are primarily mental disorders. I believe to cure the person of these diseases, they should seek psychiatric advice and learn to love their bodies.
I want to be anorexia how do i do it?
I'm sorry, but WikiAnswers is meant to be a place where questions are answered that are there to help or educate or assist a person. Suggesting a method of encouraging anorexia (a potentially fatal and life-endangering disease) would not be helping, but would be promoting this dangerous life style.
Is their any prevention for anorexia?
Yes. Anorexia can be prevented by each individual having high self-esteem and a positive body image, through not teasing others about their weight or looks, and through support and healthy eating / exercsie habits.
How can you make working model of kidney?
You can't as it's a highly complex organic system, but you could simulate what it does.
One of the kidneys primary functions is to filter out toxins in the blood stream which are then sent to the urninary system for explulsion from the body via the bladder. Therfore you could build an example filtration system which simulates the same job.
How do you know if you have binge eating disorder?
The following five criteria should be met for a patient to be diagnosed with Bulimia Nervosa: # Recurrent episodes of binge eating. An episode of binge eating is characterized by both of the following: ## Eating, in a fixed period of time (e.g., within any two-hour period), an amount of food that is definitely larger than most people would eat during a similar period of time and under similar circumstances. ## A sense of lack of control over eating during the episode (e.g., a feeling that one cannot stop eating or control what or how much one is eating). # Recurrent inappropriate compensatory behavior in order to prevent weight gain, such as self-induced vomiting; misuse of laxatives, diuretics or other medications; fasting; or excessive exercise. # The binge eating and inappropriate compensatory behaviors both occur, on average, at least once a week for three months. # Self-evaluation is unduly influenced by body shape and weight. # The disturbance does not occur exclusively during episodes of anorexia nervosa.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulemia
How many pounds can you lose in a week by not eating?
quite honestly it depends on the person... but if you want to loose weight then you need to exersise... alot.. while weight loss products may work it is proven by me that you will, i say again will, feel more comfortable and proud that you did it by hard work ( sounds weird at first but trust me) if you dont work for it then it is not worth it.. put the work in.. A lot. Every person responds differently to a starvation diet. However, the body (when deprived of food) stores what little fat you have left and doesn't allow you to burn it. When you start eating again, your body will hold onto the fat until your diet stabalizes. Starvation diets are never good for the body, you lose muscle rather than fat and become very weak.
If you vomit after eating are any of the calories extracted from the food?
I read somewhere that some calories will be absorbed. You have to eliminate the food before it hits the intestinal tract. I'm looking for the same answers. How fast do you need to eliminate the food before any calories are absorbed. Usually within 30 minutes. It's not a good idea to do this. By being bulimic you can have malnutrition and dehydration which can lead to electrolyte imbalances and heart arrhythmias.
Are there more eating disorders than anorexia and bulimia?
Yes, very much so. Anorexia and bulimia are two of the most common eating disroders that affect some of the most people who suffer from eating disroders. Here are some others, along with some of their characteristics / common notations...
Binge-Eating: Compulsive over-eating, weight gain, lack of control over food, emotional eating
Athletica / Athletic Triad: Not eating enough, exercising too much, compulsive relations of food and exercise
Orthorexia: Only eating foods that are natural / organic, fear of processed or pre-packaged foods, obsession with healthy foods, people of this tend to be vegen / raw-foodists
EDNOS: (Eating Disorder Not Otherwise Specified) This is actually one of the most common forms of eating disorders. It simply means that a person suffers from an eating disorder that does not fit well enough into another category. For example, if a person mixes anorexia and bulimia, it might be an EDNOS.
Why is it wrong to starve yourself if you would rather die skinny than live fat?
Anorexia is a very scary 'game', you think you are in control and can choose to stop at any point- that is until it is too late and you are fully in the grips of the illness. The illness provides a false sense of control, and if being skinny to the point of death seems ideal then you need to seek help. With (medically diagnosed) anorexia you wouldn't have a life, that isn't to say you wouldn't be living but you wont be able to partake in all that life has to offer like other ''normal'' people. When your BMI becomes dangerously low you become cognitively impaired, that is, you are physically unable to think clearly and your thoughts with be illogical and irrational. You may believe it is everyone else that has the problem, that you are fine, that there is nothing wrong and that it is your body, your choice, your life. But when you are at such a critical weight it the medical professions duty of care to step in and overrule what you are doing, trust me, years later you may feel differently and be pleased that someone took over and went against what you thought you wanted. I would have been dead several times by now if doctors had stoped me from starving to death, pulling me out of a state where my heart was barely beating, white blood cells had disappeared and my body was shutting down. I thought skinny was everything, but although I still have severe anorexia I now realize that whatever size I am I will be no more happy or unhappy than I am now. At their (and my) lowest weights anorexics will still think they have to lose that little bit more, seeing themselves as fat, believing happiness will come if the scales go down that little bit extra, it's not true- the scales may go down but the happiness doesn't follow, the goal just shifts. That is why is is wrong to starve yourself to death, when you are that close to death you are not capable of making life and death decisions, no matter how 'fine' you may think you are, other medical professionals must assume responsibiltiy.
New AnswerThe reason for this is, there are way worse things then death,trust me on this one!Often anorexics will suffer & live long, if you starve yourself you may not die right away. But at first your body stops functioning properly. Even your speech goes funny, you're vision is blury, & you could live with this up to 8yrs. before you die,depending on the person & they're body! Is it really worth it? Anorexia is a physcologacol issue,not just a be skinny issue. Many people 'want to be anorexic' or think 'they are', when this is not true. As a recovering anorexic,i can honestly tell you, anorexics don't normally start out with intentions of dying! Its a disease that takes years to build up & come out. Its AWFULL, and more importantly, anorexia is defined often as an obssesion with not being fat,if you are obssesed with not being fat you will not have time to think about dying, to many young girls out there don't realize, i cant stress this enough, you cant just 'get anorexia' it doesnt work like that. People who just starve themselves don't have anorexia, anorexia is more complex, & if it were only about skipping meals & over exercising, i would have a WAY easier life. But the truth is its SOOO much more then that.
Die Skinny or Live Fat?When you starve yourself, the small quantity of food that you do consume turns into fat and is taken into your body. So basically every meal you eat will turn into fat if you are starving yourself. Eating small meals will make you lose weight.Honestly. Starving yourself is a big deal because your food contains VERY important minerals, vitamins, carbohydrates, proteins, iron and fats. ALL of which your body needs. For example, iron will stop you from becomming Anemic and undiagnosed Anemia that becomes severe can cause organ damage.
Minerals and Vitamins promote good bacteria in your body and keep your organs working properly and keep you healthy and prevent infections and illnesses setting in and making you poorly. The same applies to Carbohydrates and fats.
I know its difficult to imagine that food does all of this apart from make us gain weight, but it honestly does. Trust me ok? I starved myself a few years back, lost loads of weight but I also made myself very ill and I wasn't Anorexic. It was just normal starving of food and because I wasn't getting any of the ingredients I needed, I made myself very will and went into a coma, then when I woke up out of the coma I was ill for 7 months with various immunity problems due to infections and not eating the food. So please eat your food. Have small meals.
Here is more advice on this very important question:
- Why does it have to be one or the other? Starving yourself is certainly unhealthy, but eating a reasonable and healthy diet will help you lose weight and keep you healthy. If you think your only option is to go anorexic, perhaps you just don't have enough self restraint to eat sensibly, keep yourself healthy and lose the weight.
- If you excercise and stop eating junk food, you will lose weight. I think you are taking your self-image too seriously. Life isn't always about being pretty and skinny. Appreciate your body instead of trying to look like everyone else.
- Look at this way: starving yourself is unsustainable and will make you unhappy. You won't be happy just because you're skinny. Eventually you will die unhappy. Choose to save your own life instead. Life will get easier as you get older, I promise.
However, exercise works better than changing anything about your diet for losing weight. The more you work out, the more you can eat without really even trying to burn it.
Also dying is exactly what you could end up doing. I almost killed myself and I ended up with a disease that makes me gain like, four dress sizes every time I eat something my body doesn't like. My doctor just handed me a four page list of things my body doesn't like. Not eating can cause swelling in your internal organs, irritable bowel syndrome, some forms of cancer, rotting teeth, thinning hair, etc.
So why be skinny if you have to look like the cryptkeeper?
I guess what I'm saying is: don't mess up tomorrow today.
Names of the 3 eating disorders?
There are far more than 3 eating disroders out there. The three most common are anorexia, bulimia, and binge-eating / compulsive over eating.
Is there a cure for anorexia nervosa?
there are some people who help anorexics, but it is hard to get them to stop. it's pretty much an ediction. They have to help them eat good helpings of food without them trying to get out of eating that much and try to get them to see though their eyes and hw sick they realy look. hope that is what u were lokking 4!!! :)
Will you lose weight if you do not eat for a week?
Answer Yes, but not very much. Ceasing to eat is called a fast and after the first 2-3 days you will stop feeling hungry because your whole metabolism will change. You will be cold, tired, absent-minded, grumpy and dizzy. It isn't dangerous for your health if you drink enough water (at least 32 ounces when you are eating nothing) and it doesn't last over a month. But, it is best to speak with a doctor before starting one and it is a terrible way to lose weight. You will lost 1-2 pounds a week. So, your net total will be a loss of 2-4 pounds after two weeks. And, some people end up putting on a lot more weight after they start eating again. A better way is to cut down to 1200-1500 calories and get more exercise and lift some weights.
How can you lose weight quickly if you are not having good results from trying to starve yourself?
Yes, there actually is. Never use diet pills, they don't work. The average calories to eat a day when you are on a diet is 1200. Just Excersise for 2 hours a day for about 2 weeks and you will lose around 10 pounds. But make sure you're eating the right things, like grain and meat that's not really fat. It doesnt really matter about the calories its what you eat, just make sure you burn it off. You lose 65 calories a hour when you sleep.
Answerliposuction or maybe cutting off a limb or two. otherwise, no, you have to do it the longer, healthier way.1200 calories to me would be like staving myself..
The recommended daily calorie intake varies depending on how old you are. For the average adult this is about 2000 per day (women) and 2500 per day (men). These calories should be made up of foods from the main food groups.
If you�re trying to lose weight you could start by eating 500 less calories per day. This should help as long as your diet is well-balanced and you�re getting lots of exercise.
Which makes you lose weight faster bulimia or anorexia?
I'll tell you in all honesty that neither of them work for 'sustained weightloss' like you are probably after if you are asking this question.
Anorexia will drive your weight so low that you will either die or you will get so ill that you collapse or have a heart attack from the damage you have caused your heart from not eaithing and be admitted to hospital and made to put on weight to save your life. There isn't an option of staying 'pretty and modelesque' with Anorexia. You don't get to choose when to stop losing weight. You think you can stop - but you're not in control after a while. Anorexia Nervosa is the most deadly of all mental illnesses. Malnourishment kills. So basically, Anorexia works if your aim is death. Several of my friends have died from it. A few in the 20s and 30s and several under the age of 18.
People with Bulimia Nervosa are often of average weight or overweight because the majority of the calories consumed are absorbed by the body before you can throw them up. Throwing up gets rid of very few calories, so is pointless in that respect, and it is very dangerous causing your body to be chronically dehydrated and stripped of vital minerals which can lead to heart attacks, strokes - death basically. Or the lining of your throat could tear from the vomiting, resulting in death also.
So if you want a painful death from rapid bodily decay, Anorexia works. And if you want a surprisingly swift death from a heart attack at any age, then Bulimia works. They both work if death is your aim.
And if you don't die? I've had Anorexia and Bulimia for 7 years, have been in and out of hospital, have nearly died several times, and have spent the last years so depressed because my condition makes me so ill and tired that these 7 years haven't been worth living at all. I've lost my teenage years and I'll never get them back. I never knew what it was like to go out and party with friends. I was too ill for the whole teenage era of my life. And I still struggle every day now. Even though my weight is now normal, 7 years of an Eating Disorder has left me with rotten teeth, severe anemia (so I'm tired all the time), terrible circulation (so my hands and feet always hurt and throb), I'm infertile and can never have children, and I have the beginnings of osteoperosis at the age of 20. I also have terrible eyesight now (which was perfect before Anorexia/Bulimia).
If your want to lose weight, honey, trust me, there are easier, safer, less painful and less dangerous ways. If you eat a healthy 1500 calories a day and do 45 minutes of exercise a day, you could lose a pound and a half a week. I know it sounds like slow progress, but at least it's safe and you'll still have your health and life at the end of it.
But if you are concerned about your weight, please talk to your doctor (or your parents or a teacher if you are of school age). Your doctor is the only one who can advise you how to lose weight safely for your body type and your activity level.
If you're having thoughts of throwing up your food or are tempted to stop eating, please talk to someone. Even if it's just phoning a helpline. I don't want anyone who doesn't have to to go through that I have. Anorexia and Bulimia will only work to make you very ill and very very unhappy. Please stay safe and talk to somebody xxx
What is the difference between anorexia and thyroid disorders?
== == The main difference in these two diseases is that anorexia is strictly a mental disorder that damages the body through starvation. Thyroid disorders are genetic in nature and are physical ailments.
What are signs and symptoms of anorexia and bulimia?
Anorexia Symptoms ---- In the early stages of anorexia, anorexia symptoms maybe hard to notice, but as the disorder develops, the signs become increasingly visible. People suffering from this disorder often hide their condition, mostly because they are not sure how to deal with it or they might themselves be unaware of the fact that they are suffering. Like most psychiatric diseases, it is hard to convince an anorexic the fact that they are indeed suffering.
The symptoms of anorexia that are mentioned in this page are from the doctors point of view. In cases such as anorexia, there is always a "no man's land" in between the person suffering and the doctors. We are always looking forward to updating and improving our pages keeping in mind the feedback we receive from people who have gone through the disorder.
The signs of anorexia have been split into four categories so that it is easier to spot if you or your daughter is suffering from any of them.
Anorexia symptoms in eating behavior ---- • Excessive dieting even after being thin or underweight • Obsession with calories and nutritional facts • Pretending to eat or skipping meals • Strange way of eating • Much more attention paid to nutrition labels • Hatred for foods that used to be favorites • Refusal to eat with others • Binge eating
Anorexia symptoms in appearance and body image ---- • Rapid weight loss • Feeling fat despire being thin • Obsession with appearance • Bone loss • Extra sensitivity to cold • Bloated stomach after eating • Lanugo-a fine hair that grows on the skin in response to the body's need for warmth • Yellowed skin • Thinning hair • Confused thinking or difficulty to understand simple things
Anorexia symptoms in purging ---- • Vomiting after eating • Major increase in exercise output, even when exhausted • Increased or unnecessary use of laxatives, diet pills or diuretics
Source: www.anorexiapedia.com
Why people develop eating disorders?
i think that the ppl that are most likely to get an eating disorder are the ppl that just want to go on a diet and loose a few pounds. they are like well i wont eat as much and i will loose a few, but after they loose a few pounds they are like hey i feel good maybe i can loose a few more. well once that starts they just cant stop and that is why.
