Anorexia nervosa
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Anorexia (AN) is defined as sustained restriction of energy intake, strong fear of weight gain, and interference to subjective weight or shape.
Individuals can control food and weight as a way to control the place of life that they feel uncontrollable, or as a way to express complex emotional feelings.
Restricted energy intake will be lower than normal body weight and usually lose considerable weight in a short period of time
Even if the individual is of low body weight, starvation or malnutrition, it may have a strong weight gain.
The image of the body is uneasy, such as strongly emphasizing your appearance and being overweight despite being overweight.
People with restricted subtypes can use the amount of foods consumed, such as specific food groups (carbohydrates, fats etc.), counts of calories, not eating, and / or limiting obsessive rules or strict thought And strictly limit the type. One color food only) These restrictive behaviors around food can be accompanied by excessive exercise
People with big eating / clear subtypes also severely limit the amount and type of food they consume, but in addition they may show clearance behavior and may eat too much. Eating too much includes eating a lot of food and feeling "uncontrollable". Tidying actions include voluntary vomiting, or deliberate abuse of laxatives, diuretics, or enemas.
The image of the body is distorted (for example, if you are actually underweight, you are considered to be overweight)
Fundamental change in food preference (sudden disgust for foods enjoyed in the past, reports on food allergies or intolerance, transition to vegetarian etc.)
An extravagant ceremony on preparation and eating of meals (eg eating very slowly, cutting very small pieces of food, insisting on providing meals at the same time every day)
Keep confidential when eating (eg, do not eat, hide foods that can not be eaten, eat individually, do not eat with others)
Repeated or compulsive behavior related to body shape and weight (eg repeat weight measurement, forceful looking of mirrors, pinching of waist and wrist etc.)
Mandatory or excessive exercise (eg exercise in bad weather, continuing exercise when sick or injured, suffering when not exercising etc.)
Clinically proven psychotherapy can reduce the severity, effects and duration of anorexia nervosa. Evidence based treatment for the treatment of youth's anorexia nervosa is as follows.
If you or someone you know seems to be suffering from anorexia nervosa, it is important to ask for help immediately. The more you ask for help, the closer you are to recovery. For referrals to experts with expertise on health, nutrition, eating disorders, please contact your doctor.
Dictionary definitions of anorexia claim that anorexia is a pathological loss of appetite occurring in young women, which is considered to be mainly of psychological origin. ANRED stands for anorexia and related eating disorders and defines anorexia as an unrelenting pursuit of leanness. Anorexia consists of a system that is deficient in food. Who will affect this? In one article, Mr. Dub says: "Some researchers believe that certain features are common to the families of people with this disorder. Patients are very common in this model, and researchers can use these families Clearly, the atmosphere of this love covers a series of potential problems Obviously, they often can not cope with disputes within families.
Biologically, studies of twins and family history have shown that genetic anorexia is genetically predisposed. There is a relationship between anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa and obesity, some researchers question the regulation of hunger and satiety in the central nervous system. In addition, anorexic girls often have constitutional characteristics since birth, such as perfectionism, obsessive compulsive disorder, competitiveness and susceptibility to relationships, especially susceptibility to rejection. They are also prone