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Anorexia nervosa is a common illness which is mostly seen in teenage girls and women.

Not only girls, it can also affect boys and men, but theses cases are very rare.

People with this eating disorder are mainly possessed with the food and their normal body weight.

Anorexia nervosa is more importantly a psychic disorder, in which you go beyond controlled dieting.

It is very essential to treat this kind of psychological eating disorder in order to avoid vitamin and mineral deficiency. These are certain tips which can be helpful for you to reduce the symptoms of anorexia nervosa.

Certain nutritional guidelines for anorexics:

1. Maintaining a diet with orange or carrot juice is a primary step which you need to consider, if you are suffering with anorexia nervosa. Take orange or carrot juice for every 2 hours combining with warm water for three to five days.
2. Try to maintain a fruit diet with 3 meals in a day for at least three days and then start taking foods which can be easily digestible like butter milk, juicy fruits etc. for 10 days and finally start a well balanced diet which includes raw vegetables, fruits, grains and also nuts and seeds.

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The word pica came from the Latin word magpie. Magpie is the name of the bird which is known for its large and indiscriminate appetite.

Pica is the eating disorder and this problem will be mostly seen in the people who have developmental disabilities such as autism and mental retardation.

This disorder is mostly seen in the small kids. The children who are around 2 to 3 years and who are younger than 18 to 24 months can try to eat nonfood items.

This cannot be considered as abnormal at that age.

This disorder can also be considered as the behavior that may also surface on the children who’ve had a brain injury which affects their development. This problem of pica can also be seen in some pregnant women and the people with epilepsy.

The nonfood items that will be consumed by the people who are suffering with pica are:
Dirt, Paint chips, Clay, Chalk, Plaster, Laundry starch, Cornstarch, Coffee grounds, Baking soda, Burnt match heads, Cigarette ashes, Feces, Cigarette butts, Glue, Ice, Buttons, Hair, Sand, Paper, Soap and Toothpaste.

The desire to have a beautiful and slim body makes girls and women to take drastic actions. Even the society also puts lots of pressure on young girls by supporting exaggerated physical features as ideals of beauty.

Therefore, teenage girls try to improve physical appearance and develop eating disorders.

Teenage girls with anorexia nervosa:

Anorexia nervosa is a common problem seen among teenage girls.

If you have anorexia, you fear and avoid food. When you avoid food, you lose so much weight that you look sick.

You may not see your self as too thin. You have a distorted view of your body and will be fearful that you become fat.

You feel fat due to the normal development of curves after puberty.

You stop eating or eat very little. You will feel proud of your eating. You starve often to control your weight.

If you have anorexia, your menstrual periods stop. You will exercise too much, take laxatives to lose weight and force to vomit if you eat anything. Due to constant vomiting, you will have damaged teeth. You will count the calories for every food you intake.

Every year, many individuals are affected with serious and life threatening eating disorders such as anorexia, bulimia, binge eating and compulsive eating.

If the disorder is left untreated, the psychological, emotional and physical consequences can be fatal and devastating.

Eating disorders involve serious disturbances in behavior of eating such as severe over eating, extreme reduction in intake of food and feeling of concern about body shape and weight.

Eating disorders can cause kidney and heart problems. This disorder often occurs with psychiatric disorders such as anxiety disorder, depression and substance abuse. Eating disorders often develop during adolescence or early adulthood, but sometimes it can also develop during childhood.

Overweight teens with eating disorders:

According to new study, overweight teens have eating disorders like binge eating. More than one third overweight girls engaged in weight control behaviors like taking diet pills and vomiting to lose weight. This behavior was common among thin girls, but it is now seen in overweight girls also.

Teasing about being fat is one of the strongest risks for being overweight and extreme dieting. When family members tease the teens about their overweight, it doubled the risk of being overweight. Eating together with family is a protective way for overweight and eating disorders.

Eating disorders are becoming more common now-a-days. Eating disorders during pregnancy can be more serious which affects the growth and development of your baby. The main types of eating disorders are anorexia and bulimia.

Obsessive dieting or starvation is followed to control weight gain in anorexia. Binge eating and vomiting to get rid of excess calories from the body is present in bulimics. Both types negatively affect the pregnancy and reproductive system.

These eating disorders also have negative effect on hormones of the body and limit the ability to become pregnant.

Bulimia involves binge eating and purging the food from body by vomiting or using laxatives or exercise. Binge eaters engage in overeating in order to come out of stress and emotions. Binge eaters will be always out of control and feel uncomfortably full.

Eating disorder will lead to bulimia. It is a disease which occurs due to eating large amount of food with in short period of time.

Bulimia is also known as bulimia nervosa. People with bulimia force to eat food quickly (binge) and then purge (vomit).

Purging involves various activities such as forced vomiting, excessive exercise, laxative use, or fasting for long period in order to lose weight (lose weight in a healthy way).

If you are suffering with bulimia, then you often feel the loss of control over your eating and you will feel guilt over your behavior.

You can feel abnormal behavior. Bulimia will be seen mostly in adolescent and young women.

There is no particular cause for bulimia. Bulimia will arise from various biological, genetic, psychological, environmental, social and genetic factors. Bulimia is the most common disease among college students.

The symptoms of bulimia are irregular bowel functioning, damage in teeth and gums, dehydration, tiredness, uneven heartbeat, dry skin problem and in woman menstrual irregularities will occur.

Pregnancy Eating Disorder is the serious problem for young women

This bulimia nervosa will be seen mostly in women. Women who are suffering with this will have various internal problems such as menstrual irregularities and pregnancy problems.