A Brief Summary of Common Eating Disorders

An eating disorder is the anomaly in eating pattern. In this problem acute discrepancies are found with the affected patients’ food intake manners like they tend to consume more than requirement or consume less than requirement due to certain psychological apprehension. Leaving the minor cases behind, the severe problems of eating disorder may prove to be fatal for life. Apart from affecting the health system of the disorder induced patient, it may impact negatively on the daily activities, academic career, professional as well as personal relationships with major deteriorations compromising in quality of life.

Anorexia Nervosa is one of the most common eating disorders nowadays is found especially in young generation .This typicality of this eating disorder is tendency to eat in lower amount than the normal requirement because the person, despite consuming lesser amounts of foods, considers himself/herself obese and out of this anticipation curtails on the diet.

In Bulimia Nervosa, a person displays over-eating disorder and after consumption on fear of gaining weight, the person indulges actions to reciprocate the over consumption; attempt to vomit, over exercise, or use of laxatives are seen to substantiate the effect of over eating. However, in general, the disorders are classified in two ways, purging, which involves vomiting and non-purging which involves the tendency of fasting followed by the action of over eating.

The patients of binge eating disorder consume food in over dose under pressure of stress or tension, in fact, they take refuge in foods irrespective of the fact that if they are really hungry or not.

Orthorexia Nervosa is a kind of eating disorder where the affected person becomes orthodox about his/her selection about pure foods, and in this way they become such over sensitive about certain foods that due to their psychosis they start suffering  the problem of malnutrition.

In selective Eating Disorder a person suffers from finicky style of eating and is inspired by some strong sense of rejection or acceptance of certain type of food. In crisp, the affected persons under this eating disorder become over specific about food choice and thus start suffering from acute vitamin or mineral deficiency in the long-run.