Overview Of Eating Disorders

In the global world, people are suffering from different types of diseases such as cancer, diabetes, eating disorder, heart diseases, and the some mental diseases. All these diseases are causing an over stress, anxiety, less physical, social activities and also increasing more and more psychological disorders day by day. There are several types of psychological disorder, but there is the most common type of eating disorder has in the younger generation. Most of the younger females are affected by the eating disorders. “In the psychology book, defined the eating disorder is one of the mental and nervous systems disorder category that characterized by severe disturbances in eating behavior” (1). There are two types of eating disorders; one is the called anorexia nervosa and second is the called bulimia nervosa. These both eating disorders have main characterized avoid to weight gain. Anorexia nervosa means people are trying to maintain below of the normal body weight and they have psychologically feared inside the head about gaining weight. Bulimia nervosa means it is the serious eating disorder marked by binging, followed by methods to avoid weight gain. “By statically, in the United States have more than 3 million cases per years only girls suffering of the bulimia nervosa and there are 200,000 to 3 million US cases per year of the anorexia nervosa”(2,3). Those girls have the both eating disorders, they are working as become the models, actress, athletes and other fields, but they have all time psychological fear for if the gain weight, so they have, feels that loss the career for becoming superstars. These eating disorder’s girls always avoid to eat some nutritious foods, doing extreme exercises, fasting and starves own self for two or three days. The biological, psychological and environmental factors are affecting to …show more content…
For the treatment, of these eating disorders are also provided medication, nutrition education, and clinical psychologists. Psychologists are treating the mental disorder and some therapies, but dietitians are treated with diet, weight and provide some importance nutrition information that some people do not know about the essential nutritious foods. Group and family therapy are the most important therapy who are extremely suffering from the psychological and environmentally related factors of the eating disorders. Group and family therapy are the psychological counseling communicate between individual patients and family members. “In this therapy may also include multifamily members have an opportunity to explore family issues and feedback from other families and patients” (4). It is helping to resolve conflicts between family members. This therapy is short term and include patients with family members and involved to community nutrition educators. “Specifically for the children and adolescents, family therapy emphasizes a strong parental alliance, resolution of family difficulties and support for the adolescent’s developing independence” (4). “Group and family therapy is also supporting people to understand the role of the eating disorder has played within their family, what are the factors may be maintaining the disorder, and how to differentiate between their family member and their family member’s illness”(4). By community nutrition educators provide information about the healthy nutritious foods that what type’s foods have the essential protein, vitamins and minerals and it also helps to build strong immunity and giving more energy to support other organ