What Is Anorexia?

Anorexia is an eating disorder characterized by lack of appetite, causing weight loss and even starvation.  People suffering from anorexia are very skinny but are convinced that they are overweight.
 Anorexia is usually detected in young people around the onset puberty, mainly girls.
Anorexics have an intense fear of becoming fat. Their dieting habits develop from this fear.

Weight loss is obtained by many ways. Some of the common techniques used are excessive exercise, intake of laxatives and not eating.

What causes it?

Anorexia can be caused  by a gastrointestinal illness as well as for nerve problems.
For example the cases of depression, which affects most of  teens today.
Many factors cause depression in teens are directly related to the pressure of society or the environment on them. Some of the most critical cases that cause depression and leading to anorexia, are:

   
*Death or illness of a loved one (mother, father, etc.).
    * Separation of parents.
    * Moving away from home.
    * Be obese.
    * Poor school performance or school failure.
    * Traumatic events for the teenagers.
    * Any accident.

Symptoms

The first symptom that occurs in adolescents is excessive underweight, Begin to be afraid of obesity.
Distorted body perception. Begin to see a disproportionate his own body and always feel fat.
In the case of women present absence of three menstrual cycles, amenorrhea. Also abdominal pain, vomiting, etc.

When anorexia is at a critical point, you can see symptoms such as excessive concern not to consume carbohydrates, constant feeling of cold, reduced food intake gradually, obsession of sports and figure, use of traps to evade food, hyperactivity, palms of the hands take a yellowish color, broken nails, hair, teeth problems, etc..

 Emotionally, the normal symptoms in adolescents of today are the self-destructive or negative view to everything they undertake and do.

Consequences of Anorexia

As a disease, It directly affects the family and close friends of the teenager who has it. It can cause breaks in the family by the state of denial to see the reality of the severity of the disease.

Who has this disease does face an impaired ability to concentrate, memory, learning, etc.

      As a physical consequence, clearly find, low muscle remains in the body to lose excess weight. Visibility of the bone structure can even cause death by starvation.

Family against Anorexia

Treatment and family

To treat this disease the first thing should be clear is that what affects the young is the psychological. So, it must first find ways to improve mental disorders, of course, too, go immediately to improve the nutritional quality of the body.

  
To improve the nutritional quality should considerably increase the adolescent weight. It is important that this process the family is in constant contact with the person concerned, and that affection can help the process of food intake. This is because the patient needs support to feed the right way to regain lost weight. Even when the patient reaches the appropriate weight despite his size, does not mean it is completely healed, relapse can occur if not treated in the psychic field.

For this is good to have therapy, look for the "why" of using stop feeding properly. Inform the parents that this disease is, how it can affect their children, their thoughts, feelings and personality.

To be successful in curing the disease must go to parents and medical centers and institutions to assist the affected (Association of Relatives of Eating Disorders.)

Celebrities with Anorexia Nervosa

We can find the famous celebrities who have gone through anorexia:

Amy winehouse 

Who is connected to the world of drugs, depression and unhealthy relationships with her partners.

Lindsay Lohan

Down  17 kg (37.4 lbs) in 6 months by the pressure of stardom in Hollywood

Artists have created songs  taking as its theme Anorexia
as the song "90-60-90" by Flor Villagra shown in the following video: