Being slim is the most longed for women. No doubt, some of them became confused when the arm, abdomen, or thigh fat was looking. Moreover, obesity is also synonymous with health problems.

Conversely, those judged more beautiful slim, attractive views, and even considered healthier. As a result, many people in their everyday diet schedule for a slim body shape. There are people who want to diet slowly, there are also people who want to be thin with instant way.

Only, not a few misguided people on diets. They think eating is the culprit of obesity. To lose weight, then reduce their food intake drastically. To reduce weight, reduce their food intake drastically. And, in fact is to manage the intake of dietary calories we consume

How to reduce food intake today much to the fast symptom is excessive or the spit-eaten food. If you are around anyone doing this in his diet, “Can they suspected of having eating disorders or eating disorder”.

Understandably, more and eating disorders sufferers like this more and more. According to the research of Robert Koch Institute in 2008, every fifth of European citizens aged between 11 to 17 years showed symptoms of eating disorders occur them.

Targeting young women
Young women are more prone to eating disorders compared with adult women or even men. “For among them, images of beautiful women should be slim,”

There are two types of eating disorders is well known, namely anorexia nervosa and bulimia. Anorexia is a holding food into the body for fear of being fed and fat. People with anorexia usually will not eat, though hunger and appetite is not disturbed. When eating, they usually had little / create.

Bulimia have different characteristics. People with bulimia usually brings back food that was eaten by scraping the throat and stimulating-nausea. They also often use laxatives to remove the food from the body as soon as possible.

Weight eating disorder sufferers are usually very mild, even to below normal. In addition to thin, eating disorder sufferers were also seen to have thin hair and nails, and dry skin.

Most people suffer from anorexia and bulimia is more caused by psychological factors. They are not confident with his body. Unfortunately, they often deny being affected by interference.

“But, they will continue to refuse food even though their bodies have become very thin,” To stop him, the patient must be taken to a psychiatrist and combined with medical treatment. Encouragement from family and friends are also needed to increase self-confidence again.

However, the weight can dramatically decreased as well as organ dysfunction or an infection in the body.

“It can also cause anorexia,”. For that, “They should be immediately taken to the hospital for unknown causes.

Rarely examined, choose suicide
During the beautiful paradigm was identical to the slim faded, then anorexia and bulimia sufferers will also continue to grow. Once one of the conclusions of a study.

During the year 2009 and then, the study says that women are more often affected by eating disorders than men. In the study mentioned: the body of the 1000 women suffer from eating disorders.

In men, only one of 1,000 men suffering from this disorder. This is also reinforced calculations Eating Disorder Association, namely; as many as 1.15 million British people suffer from eating disorders throughout 2009.

Unfortunately, only about 60,000 to 90,000 are undergoing restoration and treatment. In fact, in a study of patients eating storage in the United States, as much as 15% of those with anorexia die of suicide, infections, digestive problems, and malnutrition aka nutritional deficiencies.

The message of the media beauty = happiness = thin.

Usually they are people with the right weight. Do not present the image can be seen in skeletal to anorexia. Bulimia is characterized by episodes where a person eats a lot and then vomiting or purging occurs. Bulimia can lead to anorexia.

Bulimia Like other eating disorders is related to:

Low self-esteem
Family Problems
Fear of growth or to take responsibility
Social pressure

Some features of bulimia

1. Obsession with food.
2. Episodes of eating an exaggerated and then vomiting occur. They do it in secret.
3. Use of laxatives after over-eating also secretly
4. Make a lot of exercises after the episodes about eating
5. They lose the sense of fullness that normal people have.
6. Irregular menstrual periods
7. Damage to the teeth by frequent vomiting.
8. Brittle nails
9. Depression or irritability, frequent

Treatment
It is similar to anorexia. It requires psychological therapy and counseling in the areas of nutrition and personal care.

The clinical treatment may require the use of drugs against depression.

Support groups are also important as joining in church groups, groups of friends and of course family support.

Some practical advice

If you think you suffer from bulimia or anorexia nervosa or you have a friend or relative with this problem you can:

Go to the doctor to diagnose the disease
Find support groups
Keep a journal to vent and to establish patterns of behavior
Seeking help in the church if you have
Reinforce a positive image with real words: you look pretty, you’re a good friend, you are so good daughter.

Alternative medicine

1. Practice meditation or visualization. In viewing the person needs to reinforce a positive image of itself.
2. Having a gratitude journal where you write each day he was the nicest thing he saw during the day: a flower, animal, smiling friends and so on.
3. Try to join a group that provides social services to focus on something other than the person.
4. Relaxing activities like yoga, massage, aromatherapy etc. Relaxing therapies such as acupuncture.