What makes a person beautiful? Our society places an inordinate amount of emphasis on being thin, made up, wearing the right clothes, being seen in the right places, having the right breast size, and the list goes on. What happens to girls and women who subscribe to these societal beliefs? Plastic surgeons profit, the make up industry soars with increased sales, diet pills and diet plans, whether healthful or not increase to phenomenal sales levels. But what happens…
Your Anchors & How They Keep You From Your Weight Loss Goals
Anchors are the reasons that attach you to any behavior. Your anchors originated from extremely strong repetitive memory associations, which are triggered by your five senses of hearing, vision, smell, taste, and touch. You are constantly being anchored in different ways through out your life. For example, when you hear a certain song and it brings back a memory of a certain person, or a place in time, this is an audio anchor or an anchor triggered by your sense of hearing.
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The Subconscious Control Of Your Diet And Weight Loss
What determines human behavior and in particular your eating behavior? I have yet to come across a psychiatrist, psychologist or physician who can answer this question, yet this is the most fundamental question if you wish to initiate lasting permanent behavior change. If you can not answer this question, how could you possibly expect to help someone make a change in there diet or insure permanent weight loss? How can you move forward if you do not definitively know what is m…
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An antioxidant is a chemical that reduces the rate of particular oxidation reactions in a specific context, where oxidation reactions are chemical reactions that involve the transfer of electrons from a substance to an oxidising agent.
Eating Disorders Explained
Unhealthy eating patterns lead to an eating disorder. This is very common among teenage girls who are obsessed about becoming thin, and start harming their body by not eating. Poor nutrition harms their body organs. This is a very serious problem as it affects them mentally as well, and leads to depression and anxiety.
What Is Anorexia Nervosa?
Anorexia nervosa is a psychiatric diagnosis that describes an eating disorder characterized by low body weight and body image distortion. Individuals with anorexia often control body weight by voluntary starvation, purging, vomiting, excessive exercise, or other weight control measures, such as diet pills or diuretic drugs.
Anorexia nervosa primarily affects young adolescent girls in the Western world and has one of the highest mortality rates of any psychiatric condition,…
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What Is Anorexia?
Self induced emotional eating disorder characterized by persistent loss of appetite is called anorexia. Excessive consciousness toward weight loss, counting calories and excessive exercises can lead to a severe emotional eating disorder called anorexia.
Some diagnosing signs and symptoms of anorexia are:
– Excessive consideration to become thinner and thinner.
– Misperception of body shape and weight.
– Fear of body weight gain and fat.
Persons suffering from anore…
The Skinny on Anorexia
This article is about anorexia nervosa. This article presents a brief statistical figure of girls and women who have anorexia. Like bulimia, anorexia is characterized by a stern fear of becoming fat or being thought of as fat. They just differ in their means of cutting back weight. While bulimic people purge after overeating, anorexic people dont eat at all. Eating disorders may be brought about by a lot of different factors: society, refusing to grow out of puberty, and having different stressful situations in the past. Anorexia also brings about a lot of side effects ranging from physical to psychological. The best way to prevent children from developing anorexia is to lead by example and expose them to healthy food and a healthy eating habit.
Tips on Spotting Anorexia Symptoms
Anorexia is considered to be a serious illness that can even lead to death. Anorexia symptoms should be identified quickly in order to stop it from causing further damage to affected persons. Anorexia symptoms are usually easy to notice, as the disorder causes both physical and psychical changes. Once anorexia symptoms are confirmed, the patient needs to follow an appropriate treatment, involving therapy and a period of physical recovery.
The Malign Effects of Anorexia Nervosa
Anorexia Nervosa is a very common type of eating disorder. The main characteristic of the disease involves self-restrictive food behaviors, determining the affected persons to keep drastic diets in order to lose weight. Anorexia involves a phobia of being fat and people affected by the disease develop obsessions with food. Although the actual causes of anorexia are not clear, it seems that the disease has a pronounced psychological character. Anorexia occurs on the premises of emotional distress and mental instability and the majority of affected people have a low self esteem and a poor self-image.
The Princess’ Secret Disease
Princess Diana admitted in a book that she suffered from an eating disorder which she described as her secret disease. Now, it’s no longer a secret about the many ill effects of the eating disorder bulimia. This life-threatening disease affects both the mind and the body. Key Words: bulimia, depression, counseling, anorexia, treatment