¡Watch out! Dangerous game by WhatsApp that with macabre challenges promotes anorexia
A mother discovered on the phone of her daughter, a dangerous game by WhatsApp that promotes anorexia and bulimia. Through terrible challenges like getting high, taking a sip of water for every tablespoon of food, eating ice cubes and cutting yourself in the extremities is that the players win the challenges.
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The game called Ana - for anorexia - and Mia - for bulimia - invites participants to meet challenges to lose weight, and sets a time limit to lose a defined amount of kilos, regardless of health complications, which can be fatal . In fact, the participants do not consider these diseases as eating disorders, but as a way to look and feel good about themselves.
Although blogs for pro Ana and pro Mia have been around the world for several years, the trend of challenges for chat communities is recent in Colombia. In Valle del Cauca, authorities have already reported five cases of young people who have been subjected to the challenges.
In Cali, a mother reported that her 12-year-old daughter exhibited strange behaviors for almost two months. She said that she did not eat because she did not like her body, and that when she did she vomited immediately afterwards. Even, on a couple of occasions, he noticed lacerations on his arms and legs.
Concerned, the mother decided to investigate and described in the middle of last November that in the girl's cell there was a WhatsApp group with people from different countries, such as Argentina, Cuba, Chile and Mexico, where they gave advice to stop eating.
Cesar Valencia, youth coordinator of the Department of Social Development of Valle del Cauca, told El Pais that as the case of the child under 12 years have received reports of other children who make drastic diets, which contain less than 500 calories to the day. He added that the challenge already caused anorexia to one of the girls and bulimia to another.
The official also said that "a warning voice should be sent to public and private schools and to parents, because the main responsibility for children's welfare lies in the home." And he asked to limit them and control access to the internet and electronic devices.
This is a very important post, thank you for bringing this to light. It may come as shock to many people, but anorexia is the number one most dangerous mental disorder in the USA, even more than depression as far as suicide is concerned. Too many young men and women suffer from this affliction, and feel that their tribulation is worthless. It's nice to see others chiming in about the dangers of this illness and speaking up to promote a change.
yes.
Dangerous game by WhatsApp.
Pretty bad news - lots of people need to lose weight these days but you need to be aware that there are safe ways to do it. Mostly it comes down to protecting your mental health - lots of effective weight loss strategies can be quite demanding but in temporary ways. Your mental health is much harder to build up.
Wow
This is a vital info.... Let's make sure this spreads tho
cuando leia tu articulo pensaba exacta mente lo que decias al final del mismo los padre es decir en el hogar es donde se deben poner limites firmes con respecto al acceso de la tegnologia a los hijos, un chico no debe tener un acceso ilimitado y sin supervision al internet ni al telefono. los padres deben de estar muy involucrados en la vidad de los niños y jovenes y hablar con ellos. para asi poder detectar los focos de alarma cuando estos se prendan. en mi opinion muy personal pienso que se evitarian casos como este de problemas de alimentacion y hasta los llamados pistoleros de los colegios. porque el problema de los chicos a nivel de los ya mensionados y de droga son a nivel mundial Editar
When I read your article I thought exactly what you said at the end of it, the father is to say in the home is where you should put firm limits with respect to the access of the technology to the children, a boy should not have unlimited access and without supervision to the internet or to the telephone. Parents should be very involved in the lives of children and youth and talk to them. in order to detect the alarm bulbs when they turn on. In my opinion very personal I think that cases like this one would be avoided of feeding problems and even the so-called gunmen of the schools. because the problem of the boys at the level of those already mentioned and drugs are worldwide.
Resteemed to bring it to more peoples attention! All though I don't have so many followers yet..
Keep up the good work
Nice post!!!
Thank you.