Eating Disorders

Eating Disorders

Eating disorders are complex pathologies, generally associated with serious psychological discomfort, characterised by a distorted relationship with food, excessive concern for one's physical shape and altered perception of one's body image.

Women represent 94% of the people suffering from eating disorders.

The first symptoms of eating disorders appear at the age of 12. Teenagers start feeling unconfortable because of their conflicting relationship with their body. There is also a lot of evidence that a bad mother-daughter relationship is partly responsible for these serious diseases.

Anorexia nervosa

Anorexia nervosa is an eating disorder in which the victims have an intense fear of gaining weight. This eating disorder is dangerous and can be deadly, too.

One of the first symptoms of anorexia is not eating enough food because you think that you have to lose weight to look better; the consequence of this is that you will be underweith and you won't have enough energy for the day.

Bulimia nervosa

Bulimia Nervosa is a serious eating disorder characterised by the compulsive desire to ingest excessive amounts of food, followed by attempts to eliminate what has been ingested to avoid weight gain.

Binge Eating Disorder

Binge Eating Disorder is characterized by the uncontrolled impulse to swallow excessive quantities of food, but unlike bulimia nervosa it is not followed by behaviors aimed at avoiding weight gain (for example self-induced vomiting).

Sports & Eating Disorders

Young male and female athletes tend to be at a greater risk for having an eating disorder if they play sports that focus on personal performance, appearance, diet, and weight requirements. Such competitive sports include, for example: swimming and diving, bodybuilding, gymnastic, etc.

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13.5% of athletes struggle with an eating disorder. Up to 45% of female athletes, and 19% of male athletes, struggle with an eating disorder. Among high school students, rates of eating disorders among athletes is higher than non-athletes, with 7.3% of athletes affected and 2.3% of non-athletes impacted. 2% of female athletes struggle with anorexia nervosa. 6% of female, and 2% of male, athletes will struggle with bulimia nervosa behaviours.