EATING DISORDERS 1. • • • • • • • • DISORDER: An eating disorder is an obsession with food and weight that harms a person's well-being. - Eating disorder is a slow death GO TO EXTREMIES: They do not want to eat, and they are afraid of gaining weight. - Go to the extremes for being thin and not fat. OCCURS: For the food disorder the anorexia occurs - Many ideas to lose weight occur and these ideas can be very serious OBSESSED: They go to extremes to avoid gaining weight. - Obsessed in being slim LAVAZATIVES: These make the intestine retain more fluid. This softens the stool and helps the intestine to expel it. - Laxatives are used to relieve and prevent constipation, BINGING PURCING: They present complications in up to 10% of cases. Infections, allergies, scars, inflammation and bleeding are the most common OVEREXERCISE: They may exercise too much. People who have anorexia generally think that they are fat even though they are very thin. Excess exercise is oxidation and cellular aging 2. • • • • • Entre el 0.8% y 1% en población general y del 3.5% en bulimia. They think they are fat when in fact they are not, they exercise excessively and eat very little. No. Talking to him, motivating him to eat healthy and appropriate for his age. Too important. 3. ANOREXIA NERVIOSA BULIMIA NERVIOSA TRASTORNO POR ATRANCON