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eating disorders is a relatively new field of medicine. Scientists have not yet much data on a process of long-term recovery from eating disorders. But much about who is vulnerable to the disease as it begins and how it is evolving well known, and that is what we study here.


According to the latest figures, there are many people who meet the criteria for eating disorders – about 10% -15% of women. This includes all eating disorders: anorexia, bulimia, binge eating, and others. The most dangerous of all anorexia nervosa is about 1% -1.5%. Bulimia is about 5% -6% and the rest goes to binge eating, extreme dieting, obsession with body image, etc.

More than half of women will develop anorexia bulimia in the course of the disease. And almost 80% of anorexic bulimic behavior show it. To say in other words, they eat too much between non-food and rinse swing compulsively throughout the duration of the disease.


And the only line of demarcation between anorexia and bulimia is weight. People with extremely low weight are considered anorexic. And regards people with normal weight or slightly overweight bulimics.


Recent studies have also shown that women are more susceptible to the disease much more than men. Genetic predisposition to develop an eating disorder confirmed by many studies.


It has been said that people are a particular gene that is responsible for the development of dependence (obsessively) inherit behavior.


It was also shown that people with certain personality traits are more prone to eating disorders. These personality traits are perfectionism, harm avoidance and impulsivity (or difficulty controlling his impulses).


desire for thinness is influenced largely by the media. If women with certain personality traits and genetic constantly exposed to images of waif-like models, actresses thin and strikingly beautiful icons necessarily to be like them.


If all the above factors converge in one person, he / she developed an eating disorder.



Finally, eating disorders

multi-factor disease. It takes a certain genetic predisposition, specific social influences and personality to develop the disease.


This complexity, which are very difficult disease to treat and manage. However, there are many cases of healing eating disorders, and in general the disease as treatable. To see how other people will manage their problems in order to http://www.mom-please-help.com

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