Want to lose weight? While fasting seems to be the most logical thing to do (less calorie intake equals to weight loss), it is not the best way to lose weight. It is actually dangerous, because fasting can lead to the development of eating disorders. I know you want to be thin, but maybe not …
All eating disorders have an underlying psychological reason. A normal person may be fat or thin naturally. When weight and food becomes an obsession, it becomes clear that the patient is disturbed psychologically. Eating disorders are caused by depression, anxiety, lack of self esteem, substance addiction, anger, loneliness, inadequacy and many other psychological conditions. The …
Is it kinda turns us into self-centered jerks. Ok, granted, it isn’t the only problem with eating disorders. There is the whole “you could die” thing, too. But you already know that. When I was in the midst of my eating disorder, I damaged a lot of relationships. Mostly because I was so darn selfish. …
Food is something that many of us live to enjoy and love to find as many places as possible to eat at. While we drive around or sit around thinking of the next best place to stuff our faces, there are others out there that have to struggle every single day to keep themselves from …
For me, eating disorders are as critical as mental problems; if they were not prevented at the right time, they could turn the life of the sufferer into total agony. They can be very dangerous due to the fact that people with eating disorders get to a point where their body can not fight anymore, …
No one that I’ve found has the statistics, but the connections are real. Young men and women who are in abusive romantic relationships are more likely to have disordered eating. Why? What’s the connection? Do people with eating disorders simply make bad choices all the time? Not at all. At the website, www.Loveisrespect.org, a powerful …
After Kenneth Tong’s commentary on managed anorexia aroused fury from around the world, he released this statement yesterday: “I think it is time for to come clean. The whole size zero thing is a hoax. It came about after an interesting discussion I had with a friend of mine. The discussion centered round whether it …
Have you ever had that feeling of pure sadness? When something you love just doesn’t satisfy you anymore? Well, that’s me and my food. It wasn’t like I was trying to starve myself, but rather, I felt no need to eat something I had no interest in. I tried to liven things up a little …
It truly feels like there are two of you. One of you pretends each day to be “normal”, going to work, taking care of a house and perhaps children, basically going through the motions of everyday life. The other “one” lives in constant fear..of rejection….of not fitting in…of being criticized for not being perfect…of being …
Eating disorders are serious medical conditions. Worse still, eating disorders are self inflicted body weakening medical conditions. The causes for eating disorders are psychological and these psychological problems manifest into wrecking the body by starvation. Eating disorders are caused by psychological conditions of depression, a lack of self esteem, anxiety and the general illusion generated …
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