Teen Eating Disorders - What Are The Signs?


by Max Suther - Date: 2007-04-24 - Word Count: 361 Share This!

Eating disorders mainly occur because of a combination of emotional, physical, and spiritual factors. The only thing that victims have in common is a history of dieting. Out of five million Americans with eating disorders like anorexia, bulimia or binge eating, about 95 percent of affected people are female and teenagers. They are particularly susceptible due to biological predispositions, emotional disturbances, relationship problems, and stress.

Eating disorders normally start when the people are trying to handle the main problems that affect them. The problems may be divorce, the death of someone who was very close to them, joining a new school, persistent problems in marital life, problems in the family, and so on. The people affected by eating disorders usually experience the feelings of depression, low self-respect, and a sense that things are out of their control. Usually the victims of eating disorder are attractive, brilliant, careful, energetic, and hard-working. Numerous eating disorder-affected people have exceptional powers of self expression, and will argue that they do not have an eating disorder.

Anorexia nervosa mostly affects the teens. Among the teens, the girls are frequently affected. More than 75 percent of anorexia victims do not have a history of being obese. Bulimia nervosa usually affects the late teens; here girls are affected the most. Nearly half of the bulimia-affected people have suffered from anorexia. Researches reveal that more than ten percent of all women are affected by bulimia. Binge eating disorders appears at any age; however, they are more common in the late teens. Most of the binge eaters are overweight or obese. Adult binge eaters can have obesity-related disorders like high cholesterol, hypertension, or type 2 diabetes.

If you find someone with an eating disorder, you should seek professional help even though they are in your family. Take the person to a physician. If any teens think that they suffer from anorexia, binge eating, or bulimia, they can get confidential help from the physicians. Now-a-days, the therapy of eating disorders is handled in a caring, non-judgmental, and non-menacing way; hence the teens will receive benefit from the support services that are available. By undergoing such treatments, the teens and others can easily be benefited.


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