Obsession with Dieting and Eating Disorders
Obsession eating disorder by the diets and eating disorders with the arrival of summer comes the obsession with dieting and make sacrifices in power, which “can become the gateway to the eating disorders,” explains Professor Luis Rojo, a professor of psychiatry at the University of Valencia and section chief of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Food Disorders, University Hospital La Fe de Valencia and member of the Executive Committee of the Spanish Society of Psychiatry (SEP).
Red alert on many occasions trying to remove a few kilos in summer can be a risk factor for suffering from anorexia, a disease that has become the third most common chronic disease among adolescents, and as an early symptom of anorexia. “We know that the more intense is the diet that is done, the greater the risk of occurrence of these disorders. In the more or less readily to display these phenomena affect individual vulnerability, “he adds.
Also remember that “the stereotype of beauty in our culture, significantly thinner, is a great facilitator to be launched behaviors that pose a clear risk of developing an eating disorder.”
Currently, the anorexia nervosa in young people aged 10 to 19 are about 35 cases per 100,000 population per year, and bulimia nervosa in about 36 per 100,000 per year in young people aged 10 to 19. In general, the usual age of onset is between 13 and 16 years, and is usually much more common among girls than among boys.
Regarding the factors that influence, Red explains that they are both biological and psychological, familial and socio-cultural. “The genetic influences, personal psychological factors are also important because they are the ones that make a particular individual body changes, the thinness, not act as a resource to gain a sense of security, sense of personal worth, and the resource almost exclusively, although wrong, and no possibility of success, to feel good. ”
Therefore, these patients are usually young perfectionist, overachieving, low personal consideration, and sometimes influenced by personal experiences or learned models in the family and society.
“Family factors, rigidities, excessive valuation of all matters relating to the image and body are one more factor that helps these disorders are manifested, but in no case should gravitate to the weight of causality a condition as complex in the behavior of the family, “he explains.