Feeding and Eating Disorders

Feeding and Eating Disorders

Eating disorders are serious conditions related to persistent eating behaviors that negatively impact your health, your emotions, and your ability to function in important areas of life. Most eating disorders involve focusing too much on your weight, body shape, and food, leading to dangerous eating behaviors. These behaviors can significantly impact your body’s ability to get appropriate nutrition. Eating disorders can harm the heart, digestive system, bones, and teeth and mouth, and lead to other diseases.The most common eating disorders are anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa and binge-eating disorder.

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  Binge Eating Disorder (BED)

  A person with BED losses control over their eating and eats a very large amount of food in a short period of time. They may also eat large amounts of food even when not hungry or uncomfortably full.

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  Anorexia Nervosa

  With anorexia, people restrict their food intake and use other methods of weight loss including exercise and diet pills to control their weight. People with anorexia are at greater risk of cardiac concerns that people with other eating disorders often experience cold in their extremities, and can develop fine hairs(“lanugo”) over their body.

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  Bulimia Nevosa

  With bulimia, people will secretly eat large amounts of food and then purge the food they have eaten, causing a number of health concerns including dental decay, GERD and erosion of the esophagus due to excessive self-induced vomiting.

What Online Treatment For Disordered Eating Is About

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  Bulimia Nervosa

  People living with bulimia will feel out of control when binging on very large amounts of food during short periods of time, and then desperately try to rid themselves of the extra calories using forced vomiting, abusing laxatives or excessive exercise.
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  Personal attention

  Treatment for anxiety is specific to each person and understanding what to expect and where to look when seeking help can reduce your stress and confusion.
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  Guarantee quality care

  With anorexia, a person will deny hunger and refuse to eat, practice binge eating and purging behaviors or exercise to the point of exhaustion as they attempt to limit, eliminate or “burn” calories.