EATING DISORDERS IN INSECURE CHILDREN
More recent studies have shown that children who have low self-esteem and confidence levels are more prone to eating disorders like bulimia, anorexia and binge eating, all of which can prove to be fatal if allowed to progress to dangerous stages. It is thus important for parents to do what they [...]
PARENTAL CARE TO PREVENT EATING DISORDERS IN CHILDREN
Parents are often advised to give enough attention and tender loving care to their children. This is because making sure that your children feel loved and important can very well assure that they will be hanging out with the right crowds and not seeking attention elsewhere. More importantly, [...]
EARLY DETECTION: KEY TO WINNING AGAINST EATING DISORDERS
Eating disorders are becoming common as peer and social pressure gang up on the lot of us. Everyday, the media bombards us with images of slim and fit celebrities in the most fashionable clothes in the most fabulous locations. We are constantly being told that in this day [...]
DEPRESSION AND EATING DISORDERS
Do you know that people who have suffered any type of depression at any level or circumstance is more prone to have an eating disorder than most individuals? This instability in the way we think and feel about ourselves often cause depression. Unfortunately, these very same insecurities that lead to depression can [...]
WHEN DIET AND EXERCISE IS TOO MUCH
How much dieting is healthy dieting and how much exercise is actually good exercise? It is always important to remember that too much of anything can be bad and that too much dieting and too much exercise are actually eating disorder symptoms that we should all watch out for.
Most [...]
WATCH CHILDREN CLOSELY FOR EATING DISORDER SYMPTOMS
Eating disorders can have long lasting and fatal effects. It is often triggered by feelings of insecurity and depression in people who will strive to find happiness and contentment in the way they look. In some cases, perfectionists especially athletes can also be prone to a variety of eating [...]
EATING DISORDER AMONG ADOLESCENTS
Puberty is the most awkward and uncomfortable stages that every adolescent goes through. Its that time when you’re barely and adult yet hardly a child anymore. At this time many become very conscious of their physical appearance and most teenagers begin to work rather hard to improve the way they look. [...]
THE DANGERS OF CHRONIC DIETING
Are you a chronic dieter? Do you find yourself crashing into one diet after another to maintain your weight or keep yourself thin? Many might contend that getting into roller coaster diets is the way to go considering that you will be allowing yourself the occasional joys of eating trans fats, [...]
KNOWING ANOREXIA
Eating disorders may be more prevalent than most parents think. Indeed with the onslaught of mass media images defining what’s hot and what’s not, what’s sexy and what’s gross, a lot of today’s kids are becoming more and more conscious of how they look. Unfortunately, if not carefully monitored and checked, this can lead [...]
DETECTING BULIMIA IN BINGE EATERS
Bulimia nervosa is an eating disorder that is often characterized by binge eating that is often followed by frantic efforts to lose weight, usually by purging or by taking in laxatives. Individuals diagnosed with bulimia nervosa tend to be extremely concerned with their weight.
However, bulimics just cannot control their tendency [...]
The Hard Way
If Anorexia is the subtlest kind of eating disorder because you can develop this without you even noticing it, Bulimia is its opposite. In short, Bulimia is the most evident eating disorder. Most people who choose to develop this eating disorder are mostly the ones who basically love to eat but hate to [...]
Effects of Anorexia
The most common type of eating disorder is Anorexia. I am sure that a lot of people have heard a lot about what Anorexia can do to a person. And I am more certain that there are a number of people who have experienced it first hand. Even though Anorexia is the most [...]
Stopping Eating Disorders
Many people today, especially women, have succumbed to various types of eating disorders because of the strong pressure that they are receiving from majority of the people. In fact, most of them are not even aware that they are already suffering from a certain kind of eating disorder.
The worst part is that there [...]
Judging A Book
Most people today have become very superficial in a sense that they easily judge a person based on his/her looks. Honestly, if you are not the kind of person who is solidly grounded on personal values, it would not be a surprise to see you being carried away by all the superficial notions. [...]
Moderation Not Applicable This eating disorder is the least popular of all the eating disorders that exist. Some people would even be surprised that there is an eating disorder as such that is concerned with a slightly different matter. The Binge Eating Disorder is the opposite of Anorexia and Bulimia. A person who [...]
