When normal behavior and attitude in relation to food, weight and body image starts to alter, one can develop and install different types of eating disorders. These abnormalities may affect people of any race, gender, socioeconomic level or intelligence. Statistically, eating disorders are more prevalent in white populations, especially the affected women and upper middle […]

Who doesn’t want a slim and attractive silhouette? Some of us have a good metabolism, which gives intensify the body’s burns and not to gain weight, while others keep their figures by going to the gym and trying to keep as balanced a diet as possible. Despite all this the scale doesn’t fail to show […]

What are the causes of anorexia? Causes vary from person to person but all anorexics react to internal an d external factors such as stress, anxiety, sadness or the feeling of losing control over one’s life. Most people who suffer from food disorders have low self esteem and long for social integration. Anorexics are convinced […]

The common compulsive behavior found in bulimia and anorexia is the compulsive eating behavior. At the beginning the persons affected by bulimia or anorexia believe that they can control how much they eat. The truth is that they cannot do it. They even think that they can put an end to anorexia or bulimia when […]

Bulimia and anorexia are two of the most common eating disorders. People affected by bulimia or anorexia have an excessive preoccupation with the shape and weight of their body. Anorexia is an intense desire to be skinny and a tendency of keeping an under the normal limit weight. Persons affected by anorexia have a deformed […]