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Despite the fact that many young girls suffer from eating disorders, the disorders are usually a taboo subject. For any teenager, a few or too much kilograms, can become extremely important, occupying a significant part of her preoccupations. Most of them don't know much details about this topic, but even make confusions between anorexia and bulimia. Let's go see what's this all about.

Nowadays, more and more girls try to look like models and keep a diet or worse, don't eat at all. For Many of these girls, this needto lose weight can become a nightmare, event without there comprehension.

Eating disorders usually appear in adolescent years, because, at this age we are looking for an image to identify with us and it is not a phenomenon spread only through everyday teenagers, but also international stars or models admit that they have had eating disorders.

One of these disorders is the anorexia. What is actually anorexia?

Anorexia appears when a girl start to keep a very strict diet or just refuses to eat. Eventually ends up as a diseased-woman, which develops herself an identity of her own, based on the disease.

Live only for counting calories!

Most cases of anorexia started between 14 and 18 years. The most chance of having anorexia are girls that had trouble regarding their weight.

Even when they end up to be skin and bone, anorexics are convinced that they are fat. With time, they make a rule from calculating and studying the calories of every aliment; even more, the anorexic girl, learns by heart full tables of calories and at a certain point agrees only with eating cucumbers and carrots.

How do I recognize anorexia?

Let's assume you have a skinny girlfriend, always worried about her weight and always set on a diet. You can realize if she suffers or not from anorexia? Of course, there are a few symptoms that help you recognize it:

1. loses weight on purpose, sometimes to the weight of 30 kg.
2. doesn't attend family dinners and food that is full of calories.
3. she weighs herself a few times a day.
4. does a lot of sport or takes pills which retain the need for food or laxatives.
5. despite the fact that she's weak, she sees herself fat.
6. she cuts her food in tiny bits and takes her a long time to eat.
7. sometimes she panic's at the glance of certain dishes.

Effects upon the body?!

The state of weakness of the organism, which an anorexic maintains even for whole years, can leave severe body marks. Even sadder is that up to 15% of the affected persons can die after this disease. The most serous consequences are circulation disorders, constipation, liver, stomach and kidney problems, dried skin, degraded hair, degrade nails, exaggerated tiredness, weakness in the muscles, lack of menstruation, late and incomplete body development.

Many times, anorexia is accompanied by small psychic disorders as cleaning mania or hand washing. It is natural to feel helpless, angry, scared and even to lose your patience when you see a close one starving willingly to the step of life and death.

What can you do?

1. assure her you are by her side no matter what, and that she is ok as she is.
2. encourage her to ask for help.
3. Be patient! healing after such a disease requires much time, it is a process that develops in small steps and which can regain her power countless times.

What you mustn't do:

1. don't blame her!
2. sentences as "cut off this act and sit down and eat" don't help at all
3. try to avoid discussions on food and weight because the problem is somehow of psychic nature.

At the beginning, the sick person will deny everything or will be angry on those who try to help her. The decision of going to a doctor or the psychiatrist must be taken by herself. Respect your organism and model your body as you wish, but without threatening your life.

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