Bulimia nervosa

Have you ever persistently or spontaneously eaten paper, chalk, glass or other nonfood items? One might think you are irrational. Although this may be true, this is not the situation. In fact, you may perhaps have an eating disorder known as Pica. This psychological disorder, which is sub classified as an eating disorder, involves an individual whom compulsively eats nonfood substances that have no nutritional value (Theravive). Without a doubt, psychologists need to understand why Pica occurs,…

a person with bulimia struggles with every single day. Bulimia is a psychological eating disorder where a person feels a lack of control during eating binges. A person with bulimia will typically experience an episode of binge eating at least once a week. These binge eating episodes are characterized by eating an amount of food that is larger than what most people would eat in a snack or meal, under similar circumstances. Like the person in the scenario above, people with bulimia feel as if…

Gastritis, a condition that involves the irritation and inflammation of the stomach, afflicts millions of people. Any number of things causes it, from injury to bacteria. In that respect, it is akin to a headache: It can strike anyone, and it can be caused by a wide variety of factors both internal and external, but what is gastritis exactly? Many symptoms point to gastritis. Here are some of them. - A burning pain similar to indigestion in your upper abdomen. In some people, the pain gets…

How does food addiction have an impact on people’s health & wellbeing? “Food addiction is a disease, which causes loss of control over the ability to stop eating certain foods.” The issue selected for this assignment is food addiction. It will be narrowed down to what food addiction is, why people are mostly addicted to unhealthy foods, the effects it has on the body, mind, financially, physically and physiologically and how food addiction is cured. The assignments requirements were to design…

Best exercise techniques for women. Every woman is familiar with the main trouble zone where most fat accumulates, that is the lower abdominal section. Several women find it difficult to get in a two piece swimsuit often due to shyness arising as a result of extra flab accumulation in their bodies, thighs and abdomen. As the era of having a toned body with abs visible is in, I have come up with five best workout techniques that women can inculcate in their daily routine to achieve their dream of…

National Eating Disorders Association (CQ 121). Anorexia is one such eating disorder. “Anorexia has the highest mortality rate of any mental illness” (CQ 121). Bulimia is another major eating disorder that can have dangerous consequences if left untreated. Due to our society’s obsession with being thin, the illnesses of anorexia and bulimia have skyrocketed. According to the National Library of Medicine, anorexia can be defined as “an eating disorder that makes people lose more weight than…

Celebrity Trainer “Jorge Cruise” reveals the thing which stops you from losing weight. His experiences with celebrities like Angelina Jolie and Jennifer Lopez Wonder why you are so much behind in achieving the fitness goal? You might have done everything but we always misses the most significance factor and keep avoiding it in our lives. This is what Celebrity trainer Jorge Cruise has the answer for! He is the biggest name in the world of fitness, he has transformed many renowned celebritie’s…

fat, lying about being hungry, lies about eating, avoiding food, excessive exercising, and withdrawal from friends. Consequences of Anorexia: slow heart rate and low blood pressure, reduction of bone density, muscle loss, dehydration, feeling of weakness, loss of hair, growth of hair called “lanugo”, which tries to keep the body warm. Bingeing- There are two things that can happen with Binge eating, people can binge and purge causing themselves to throw up making them lose weight and there is…

The patient is suffering from Bell’s Palsy, which is flaccid paralysis only on one side of the face. Flaccid paralysis is when a muscle is paralyzed or weakened because the muscles cannot contract. And this is because of never damage. Bell’s Palsy got the name from Dr. Charles Bell in 1821. Because Bell’s palsy come without any warning, people think that they have brain tumor. People that have diabetes and pregnant women are more at risk than other people. This disease is common for people in…

Fad Diets Body image is something that affects people globally, especially women and young adults. People are willing to try a variety of methods to achieve their weight loss goals, some of which are extreme. Fad diets are a common method to lose weight and generally consist of restricted meal plans and lifestyle regimes to either burn more fat or stop the fat going on in the first place. Fad diets come in many shapes and sizes and are often very unhealthy. In many cases they can cause negative…