Cure and Prevention of Eating Disorders
The eating disorders are serious emotional problems that are characterized by severe disturbances in eating behavior and its fundamental component is the alteration of perception of body weight and figure.
The American Psychiatric Association recognizes as eating disorders: anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa and EDNOS, in which the most studied disease is binge eating disorder or BED (Binge Eating Disorder).
Although nutrition experts agree that alcohorexia, vigorexia, orthorexia and diabulimia could be included within the EDNOS, it is true that these disorders, who long ago were unknown or rare, are not aceptaods in the American Psychiatric Association and not is a specific theory to include this.
Diagnosis, cure and prevention of eating disorders:
Often the young generations are exposed to various hazards and fashions that seem to be installed soon greeted in a short time and without discrimination of sex and age.
Eating disorders in figures
- Between 90 and 95% of Argentine women are unhappy with their image. 90% ever felt fat, according to a survey of D ‘Alessio Irol.
- 50% is the percentage of the population estimated to suffer from a disorder (not disorder) of food.
- 90% of those suffering from an eating disorder are women. The critical age is adolescence: between 13 and 18. However, men, mature women and children under 12 years were added to the list of victims of eating disorders.
- 2 to 3 years usually take medical treatment for a patient to revert to an eating disorder.