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Warning Signs of Eating Disorders in Your Teen!
By siliconindia
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Friday, 09 September 2011, 19:20 IST
Bangalore: A number of kids-especially teens today are apprehensive about how they look and are overly conscious about their bodies, thanks to the exposure through television and books. However, when this awareness borders towards obsession about their body shape and weight they could fall pray for eating disorders.
Each year, a gigantic number of people suffer from serious and sometimes severe and critical eating disorders. Adolescent and young adult women make for the majority of those afflicted with eating disorders. This age group's propensity to go on strict diets to attain an "ideal" figure is the main reason for them being susceptible to this.
An eating disorder is an obsession with food and weight that harms a person's health. Even though we all fret about our weight at times, people who have an eating disorder go to extremes to keep from gaining weight. Eating disorders in children and teens cause severe changes in eating habits that can lead to major, even life threatening health troubles, dramatic physical changes and face new social pressures. Negative Family Influences, Genetic Factors, Cultural Pressures and Hormonal Abnormalities are some of the causes of eating disorders.
Anorexia nervosa and Bulimia Nervosa are the two main eating disorders. Food phobia, body image and binge eating disorders are also fast on the rise among adolescents. Eating disorders are severe medical problems requiring expert handling by therapists, doctors and nutritionists.
