Anorexia Nervosa

Would you like to keep the body trim diet? Suddenly become allergic to the name chocolate, ice cream and high-calorie foods. Then become afraid to eat for fear of weight going up just enough so that a full day with a few spoonfuls of rice. Be careful you know, because if the diet is not even fair anymore would be dangerous. Ally Mc Beal know the movie, right? It was said that the protagonist of this film on a diet alias Callista Flockshart hard until eventually suffer from anorexia. Lady Di's pretty and slim it also was having problems eating. He often regurgitate food after eating a variety of dishes. Feeding problems experienced by Lady Di is called bulimia.

That's just a sample of the hundreds (possibly thousands) of cases of eating problems experienced by some people. Actually, without us knowing it was a friend, or sehabat lest we ourselves were experiencing a similar case. What is anorexia or bulimia, and why a person may experience these things.


Anorexia Nervosa
Eating disorders are commonly found in adolescent girls with anorexia or fancy term is known as anorexia nervosa. Anorexia is an activity to attenuate loss by restricting food deliberately and through strict control. Anorexics are aware that they are hungry but afraid to meet their food needs because it can result in weight gain. Their perception of satiety when they are disturbed that consume large amounts of food in small portions as well, they will soon feel 'full' or even nausea. They are constantly on a diet so desperately to achieve a thin body. In the end, this condition can cause harmful effects, namely the death of the patient. Just imagine, if they continue to refrain from eating, from which they obtain energy for life.

Bulimia
If anorexics desperately to resist hunger and trying as hard as possible to not consume large amounts of food so that it can hold a 'live' simply by eating 2-3 tablespoons of rice per day, is not the case with bulimia. In essence, the ultimate goal of people with bulimia and anorexia are the same, namely to maintain a lean body shape (skinny) might be the way they are different. People with bulimia tend to like to eat foods they like. They eat too much for satisfactory desire but then they vomit them back up there was no food left. Thus they avoid getting fat but still be thin without the need to restrain their desire to eat. Can imagine if someone continually regurgitate the food they eat, where they get the calories for the move. Tubuhpun becomes weak, it is difficult to think and ultimately no more energy can be used to defend himself.


Why Can Happen?
When entering adolescence, especially during puberty, adolescents become very concerned over their weight gain. Physiological changes in the body that is sometimes annoying. Usually, it is more often experienced by young women than young men. For young women, they experienced the increase in fat tissue so they will be easy for obese when consuming a high-calorie foods. If it had not eaten anything for weight loss effect, but after puberty (usually marked with a period), only two pieces of chocolate to eat, kok 1 kg weight was added. In fact most women want to look slim and thin because they think that being thin will make them happy, successful and popular. Especially if you see the 'body' of celebrities are slim (actually more accurate to say skinny-skinny-no shows) so if you wear any model looks fit and appropriate. Meanwhile, if your body fat, wear whatever clothes seemed like he was wearing a sack of flour. Finally, the environment also affects. The more frequent teasing 'fat' diet, the more intense it is. It is not surprising when one's dissatisfaction with his body will develop problems with eating disorders.
Adolescents with eating disorders such as above having a problem with body image. That is, they already have a mind set (an idea which has ter'patri 'in the brain) that their bodies are not ideal. They perceive her body fat, a lot of fat here and there, not sexy and others are essentially not pleasant to look at and not as interesting as other people's bodies. As a result of this thinking has been etched, a teenager will always impressed to see their body fat when in fact they are the more weight it down until eventually they became very thin. They will be haunted by feelings of guilt whenever they eat a lot because it would lead to weight increase.

The issue of "body" eventually lead adolescents to be less confident and hard to accept her condition. They assume that the confidence will grow if they also have the perfect body (perfect here is thin).


Whether its aftermath?
Some people with anorexia and bulimia to lose weight can be between 25-50% of their weight. If these disorders, both anorexia and bulimia are not handled promptly, it can eventually have problems both physically and psychologically serious, even severe cases can lead to death.

Physical effects that commonly occur in them:

• Loss of appetite, so do not want to consume any food
• Injury to the throat and digestive tract infections caused by too often regurgitate food
• Weak, without strength
• Difficulty concentrating
• Menstrual disorders
• Death

Physical impacts will also indirectly affect a person's mental condition, so that the psychological problems that arise in them are:

• Feelings of worthlessness
• Sensitive, irritable, easily angered
• Easy to feel guilty
• Loss of interest to interact with others
• Insecure, awkward to deal with the crowds
• Tend to lie to cover up her eating behavior
• Ask the other person's attention
• Depression (sad continuously)

Physical and psychological impact experienced by people with eating disorders is of course not be ignored. They need immediate help from psychologists, doctors, nutritionists, and of course the parents to recover the problem so as not to bring a more serious impact, which is death.

How to Get the Ideal Body?
We need to reassess what it means to the ideal body. Does having a thin body, slim or sexy in the image of the community? I do not think there is more ideal than having a HEALTHY body. Why thin, slim and sexy when in fact we torture ourselves and ended up sick. However, be good also if finally we indulge ourselves with a variety of foods until finally we are excess weight and even at a higher risk for disease. Therefore, it is better to set a balanced diet in order to achieve the ideal body (ie: healthy).


If teenagers want to have a healthy body (thin but still fit or fat, but still lively and fresh), then there are some things you can do:

• Consultation with a doctor or a nutritionist to get a balanced diet
• Regular exercise
• Get enough sleep
• Not taking medications that do not need (such as: drug / herbal slimming, sleeping pills, drugs, etc.)
• Reduce time to spare (idle) and increase activity of the brain that require hard work and physical (eg, training martial arts, dance, photography, drama, etc.)