Description bulimia Bulimia nervosa include along with anorexia eating disorders. It is characterized by bouts of excessive overeating plenty of food with subsequent selection of inappropriate methods to prevent weight gain. Most often it is inducing vomiting. Very often also…
overeating
Other names: gluttony, hyperphagia, morbid gluttony
One can overeat number of reasons. A frequent cause is a bad culture and eating habits. This is the overindulgence in food (in Christian terminology this would be probably about gluttony).
Overeating itself is not healthy for the body definitely, and for two reasons: few people will overeat healthy foods, rather those unhealthy and fried, combined with sweetened drinks and alcohol. The second reason is quite obvious. Overeating and lack of physical activity leads to obesity. Obesity itself is then very serious illness (especially insidious).
There are also congenital diseases which on the basis of mutations in certain genes causing increased food intake and the resulting obesity. These syndromes are sometimes diagnosed prenatally, but also during the life of the child. They are often accompanied by a variety of more serious symptoms – mental retardation, morphological abnormalities, damage to a wide range of organs and the like.
An example might be a Prader-Willi syndrome, Morgagni – Morell-Stewart-Biedl syndrome,syndrome Frölich, Lawrenc- Moon- Biedl syndrome, etc. The truth is that these diseases are relatively rare. These people suffer from birth in a variety of diseases, where the thus born.Therefore, they are under the care of doctors lifetime.
Bulimia nervosa is a specific eating disorder that manifests as binge eating. After přejezení also occurs tendencies that face, because there is vomiting, ingestion of drugs causing diarrhea, appetite suppressants like.
Even people who suffer from anorexia nervosa, have in the course of their illness binge eating.There are people who sometimes overeat without being considered ill.
Bulimic sick especially girls aged 13-18. Affected is still greater percentage of the male population.Certainly it is not only a women’s issue. It is a disorder of the psyche, treatment consists mainly in psychotherapy, and it is often very difficult. Affected girl or boy is certainly not admit to illness, but very persistently conceal it, and the length of the disease have increasingly sophisticated methods, such as. Vomiting after eating excesses conceal from their parents. If a parent has a suspicion as to bulimia or anorexia, she should immediately seek professional help – a doctor and a psychologist.