Come, Acquaintances with Anorexia and Bulimia!

Come, Acquaintances with Anorexia and Bulimia! - Hello Healthy Friend! Ever heard of the term eating disorder ? Eating disorder is an eating disorder caused by psychological factors in a person. There are many public figures who experience this disorder, one of them because of the demands of the role or profession they live. Not only that, this disorder has started to spread to the general public, not left behind among teenagers .

here are 2 types of eating disorders that are quite familiar, namely anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa . Come on, find out more!

1. Anorexia nervosa
This eating disorder consists of 2 types. The first type is the type of " binge eating  or cleaning". So in this type, people will eat large amounts quickly and secretly. To avoid weight gain as a result of this behavior, the person will exercise excessively or spit out his food. Whereas the second type is eating disorders which tend to severely limit their daily intake. Well, what are the characteristics of people with this disorder?

• Underweight due to the refusal of food consumption
• Doing exercise excessively to burn calories
• Can develop into changes in eating habits, such as cutting food to a very small form and requires a long time to eat
• Experiencing body image disorders and thinking that his body is fat even though he is actually very thin
• Having unrealistic thoughts like "everything will be fine as long as I'm thin"

2. Bulimia nervosa
Bulimia nervosa is an eating disorder that is regular binge eating, which spits out food that is eaten regularly and continuously with each meal followed by efforts to prevent weight gain. A person with bulimia nervosa will:

• Feeling out of control of food and being afraid you can't stop eating
• Avoid losing weight by exercising too much or fasting.

Well, Healthy Friends must be curious about what makes a person have an eating disorder like this?

1. Individual factors
Teenagers sometimes always think of perfect things according to their own perceptions. They sometimes don't know how to weigh well according to health. They only think about other people's perceptions of their body shape or weight. They are very sensitive and difficult to express what they need or feel.

2. Family factors
The family does not make someone affected by eating disorder . It's just the communication factor in the family that can make the child experience eating disorder .

3. Cultural factors
The cultural factor in question is the existence of environmental perceptions or advertisements and leaflets which say that "thin is beautiful". Things like this that make someone make the wrong mindset.

Well, Healthy Friends already understand more about the 2 types of eating disorders that occur a lot in the environment around us? The thing to remember is how we maintain ideal body weight, not competing to become fat or thin as perceptions of "beautiful" in society.