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While eating is one of source of life. Some of us do not eat properly or sometimes do not eat at all. It is consider a mental disorder as psychiatrist would say but to some it's a disease. Hi steemit friends, this is Kuya D and please upvote and resteem this topic so that we spread awareness to others.


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Early Warning Signs Include Difficulty Concentrating

Anxiety, is one common denomination here in the puzzle. If we loss control of ourselves, our body mechanism respond uncontrollably. In this manner of hiding the habit, it is hard at first to detect this warning signs. There is no simple answer to this causes, it's complex that arises with many triggering events such as social, emotional, and biological factors. Although more often we see inferiority among in heavy weights, contributing factors plays powerful role.

Source: National Women's Health Information Center

  1. Obsession with body size and shape
  2. Weighing food
  3. Cooking elaborate meals for others but refusing to eat
  4. Refusal to eat
  5. Denial of hunger, even when starving
  6. Skipping meals
  7. Making excuses for not
  8. Eating only a few certain foods well-thought-out safe, commonly those low in fat and calories
  9. Adopting meal or eating rituals, such as cutting food into tiny pieces or spitting food out after chewing

These 9 of the list extends to the very core of habit. Malnutrition will be soon connected here and since no food intake, and it seems like this disorder is also about food.

Signs And Symptoms

  • Fatigue
  • Dizziness or fainting
  • Seizure
  • Extreme weight loss
  • Thin appearance
  • Intolerance of cold
  • Dehydration
  • Constipation
  • Dry skin
  • Brittle nails
  • Hair that thins, breaks, or falls out
  • Abnormal blood counts
  • Elevated liver enzymes
  • Irregular heart rhythms
  • Low blood pressure
  • Absence of menstruation (amenorrhea)
  • Development of fine hair on the extremities (lanugo)
  • Osteoporosis, the loss of bone calcium, which may result in broken bones

In fact, they might need immediate help from you or from an expert. This insecurity becomes obsession and with this condition it can kill.

It was a big issue when Karen Carpenter died because of "Anorexia". She was teased during teenage years as chubby. She distinctively found it as a challenge and took the course of diet. When her body weight changes from 145 to 120 lbs, her family and her friends praised her achievements but from that moment begins the disorder.

It was so sudden that her weight plummet more than ever expected and later in 90's was noticeably health has been in jeopardy. Her death raise awareness and begone to reach out on for corners of the world. Doctors and specialist starts to decode this illness and frame by frame resolved and saved other women who has in this conditions.


In studies, teenagers are often target of this condition and disorder. Sometimes also the triggering fact is the society because of insecurity. A specialist is needed to diagnose about the eating disorder.

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I have a friend who have this kind of disorder. In her case, it is self-inflicted. With her obsession to look skinny, she often refused to take meals. Time came when she would vomit the moment she will eat.

It's just sad how the idea of a perfect body leads for some women to starve themselves at the expense of their own health

I read some articles of that condition. How is she? I hope and pray she will surpass that condition.

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She somehow managed to recover slowly through constant medication.

Thanks for sharing this info as well.

Good to know. I bid her good health!
Thanks for dropping by. Glad to be helpful

Kuya..can u include references pls..plagiarism is frowned upon in the platform.

oh copy that. sorry I forgot. Thanks for reminding me. much love!

Informative post, nice. :)

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very helpful post, thanks for sharing the knowledge that made us aware of this :-)

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