Eating Disorders
High Selective Syndrome: Snack and Other Food
Salty snacks
French fries, nachos, salted nuts, worms, olives, pickles, etc.. Most people who start a bag of these snacks may not stop, and most are formulated with ingredients that produce little satisfaction and quench. Some even mask sugars in the salt layer, so they are addictive and the sweet combined with salt, a dangerous mix. Our brain has a natural addiction to salt, produced by the days when salt was a luxury and was bought at the price of gold. In the center that regulates hydration produces the craving for salt, which is that this ingredient helps maintain water levels (hence the desert tribes to take salt to dry) so we have a natural instinct to take salty foods when we have a chance.
In the corridors, the craving for salty foods can be taken as signs of dehydration, so if this is your problem, increases the amount of water you drink every day, adapting to your workout, temperature and humidity. And if you still need salt, avoid snacks that you can not control the amount and living natural foods with herbs or salt iodized sea salt for flavor. Read the rest of this entry »
High Selective Syndrome
Some people eat selectively one type of food. When the power is reduced to 5 or 10 repetitive food, we talk about the syndrome of the Selective High which is a serious disease such as anorexia or bulimia and that required medical treatment.
Sweet addiction or simple carbohydrates
Foods rich in carbohydrates are the temptation of many people. As healthy foods such as bread, potatoes, pasta, and some not so healthy as pizza, candy, sweets, biscuits, pastries, causing havoc. The main characteristic of these foods is their ability to raise blood sugar levels quickly, causing an energizing effect immediately. The problem is that sugar overload forces the body to release a large amount of insulin, the hormone responsible for controlling blood sugar levels, causing the sugar or glucose to enter cells rapidly and disappear as fast as it rose.
This decline in glucose causes more anxiety for the sweet, becoming a cycle that eating sweets is endless. Recent studies have also found that these foods alter brain chemistry, which increase levels of the neurotransmitter dopamine, and the cephalin and endorphins, which are produced naturally in the brain and act as opium and its derivatives, morphine and heroin. These substances are related to the sensation of pleasure and addiction to drugs or sex. Read the rest of this entry »
Complications of Bulimia
The eating disorder is very dangerous because it generates many difficult to treat medical problems, sometimes irreversible, and over time can diminish the quality of life and even be fatal. Here are some of the most common.
Diseases of the Esophagus. This tube carries the bolus from the mouth to the stomach and prevents the contents of the latter back through the action of a ring of muscle that closes the entrance, the lower esophageal sphincter.
The self-provocation of vomiting exposes the esophagus to the powerful action of acids produced in the stomach to digest food, so first you experience a burning sensation or heartburn that gradually becomes severe chest pain. If the problem can come forward ulcer (wound or perforation) and there are even more likely to develop a cancerous tumor. It is also common these problems are amplified because the lower esophageal sphincter is impaired and becomes unable to prevent the partially digested food back. Read the rest of this entry »
Diagnosis and Treatment of Bulimia
The family and physician (psychologist, psychiatrist or dietician) suspected of bulimia nervosa when a person is too concerned about the increase in weight, has a large fluctuation in their size and especially if there are signs of excessive use of laxatives and diuretics. Other tracks have already been mentioned: erosion of tooth enamel, throat irritation, scars on the knuckles and, by submitting blood to study, low levels of minerals, particularly potassium.
However, the most valuable for the diagnosis is that the patient or admit that their feeding behavior is characterized by overeating and harmful practices that seek to prevent weight gain. When establishing the presence of two episodes of gorging of food a week or more, for at least three months, it is inevitable that a person would suffer from bulimia nervosa. Read the rest of this entry »
Symptoms and Signs of Bulimia
The word bulimia is derived from the Greek word Boulimie, meaning “very hungry” thus refers to the most striking feature of this disorder: rapid and uncontrolled consumption of relatively large amounts of food. These episodes, usually conducted in secret, are triggered by strong emotional stress and occur at least twice a week.
Other common signs of illness are:
Emotional stress. Although anxiety or uncontrollable compulsion to eat, the patient is aware that her eating pattern is abnormal, it is common to experience guilt, fear, anguish and anxiety.
Compensatory attitudes. Stress and emotional distress, along with personal and social needs, leading patients to use laxatives and diuretics, dieting and exercising various uncontrolled manner in an attempt to reverse the potential impact on his figure because of his binges. Read the rest of this entry »
Causes of Bulimia
This condition, known by experts as bulimia nervosa, characterized in that the affected person suffers from repeated episodes of voracious appetite satisfied with abundant food (overeating, eating or bingeing), after which resorts to practices aimed at preventing the abnormal increase weight, such as induced vomiting, excessive practice of exercise routines, OTC use of laxatives (products that stimulate the expulsion of feces) and/or diuretics (drugs that promote fluid elimination through the urine) and fasting or very strict diet.
This is because patients with bulimia have a distorted perception of body image (sees himself as obese despite being at your ideal weight or even below it), so it is not surprising that repeatedly expressed extreme fear of being overweight and their desire to be slender. Read the rest of this entry »