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    Anorexia & Bulimia
    Anorexia & Bulimia
    Anorexia & Bulimia
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    Anorexia & Bulimia

    By Beatrice Marchesi

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    These diseases are increasingly assuming the character of a social problem that affects individuals of both sexes, but which manifests itself most evident in females. Anorexia and bulimia are part of eating disorders, but unlike other less serious events and mostly transient, dependent on life events (unrequited love, a move away from a significant person, etc.), these disorders are real illnesses that are the underlying causes to be found, as we shall see, in family life of the child patients. The eating disorder can therefore rightly be regarded, in these cases, as the most prominent symptom, and often more serious than a complex psychological distress deepest. It is important to remember that anorexia and bulimia should not be confused with pathologies strictly organic, such as dysfunction of the digestive tract, which in a first phase may present similar symptoms.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherALVIS International Editions
    Release dateJun 23, 2012
    ISBN9781476037493
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      Anorexia & Bulimia - Beatrice Marchesi

      Anorexia & Bulimia

      Beatrice Marchesi

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      INDEX

      Premise

      Introduction

      General Features

      Anorexia

      Bulimia

      Predisposing Factors

      Next and Remote Causes

      Fasting Syndrome

      Remedies and Cures

      Bibliography

      PREMISE

      Anorexia and Bulimia are increasingly assuming the character of a social problem that affects individuals of both sexes, but which manifests itself most evident in females. Anorexia and bulimia are part of eating disorders, but unlike other less serious events and mostly transient, dependent on life events (unrequited love, a move away from a significant person, etc.), these disorders are real illnesses that are the underlying causes to be found, as we shall see, in family life of the child patients. The eating disorder can therefore rightly be regarded, in these cases, as the most prominent symptom, and often more serious than a complex psychological distress deepest. It is important to remember that anorexia and bulimia should not be confused with pathologies strictly organic, such as dysfunction of the digestive tract, which in a first phase may present similar symptoms. Anorexia and bulimia are disorders common in industrialized countries. Are absent or very rare in poor countries of Africa, Asia and Latin America. These diseases are linked to specific conflicts of values and Western culture, related in particular to the construction of female identity and the role of women in society and family. Their spread in Eastern Europe, the Third World and among immigrants from poor countries to rich countries is related to the improvement of economic conditions and, more importantly, the processes of acquisition of Western cultural models.

      INTRODUCTION

      Eating disorders are modifications of the relationship between the person and the need for food. There are less serious events, transient events that depend on the daily life and the most severe forms, can be converted into real illness, like anorexia and bulimia. There are transient disorders, which may be of different intensity and resolved spontaneously, may manifest as a decrease in appetite or as an abnormal increase in supply. In these cases there is a direct relationship between food and some recent event in the person's emotional life. You can have a poor appetite when he suffered a disappointment in love. You can have an insatiable need for food in times of tension and stress. These eating disorders are transient, in which the relationship with food is expressed distress. In contemporary society, the body should be lean and efficient. The social image of the body leads to believe that to succeed we must constantly be in shape. This determines a constant concern about their image. In some cases, the person assimilates the thinness as the most important value and this causes a restriction of diet or at least a difficulty in dealing with food. These problems may be transient or may be consolidated in relation to meetings good or bad that you make. For example, a partner inciting thinness may have the effect of strengthening the adhesion of the thin body ideal. There are disorders that are related to a project of diet. In an effort to adhere to this ideal men and women engage in projects that serve food to achieve the ideal, far from pursuing their own happiness. The failure of this project is seen as failure of social identity. Depression can be then the effect of determining the difference between her body and the ideal. This ideal is the basis of the widespread use of diets and sports activities dedicated to the care of the body. Women in particular, as we shall see with thematic analysis, are more exposed to suffering produced by this tension toward the social ideal, as the body fat is the ideal of contemporary beauty. The body to be desirable to be thin. The comparison between their own body with its particular character, its strengths and weaknesses and this social ideal of beauty is one of the causes of depression in young women. The most extreme forms of altered nutrition are anorexia and bulimia. Anorexia occurs through a more or less radical restriction of food, accompanied by constant brooding and thinking about food. In contrast to bulimia the person is committed to continuous consumption of food and its rejection. Anorexics try not to eat anything, the bulimic to eat everything.

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