Q. My family and friends are having a ahrd time accepting this idea they say people like me do not devolp eating disorders
reasons why:
Im latina
i grew up not having much I should apprciate what I can get (food)
I listen to rap
I live a fast lifestyle
When i heard this I was crushed
This is a stero typical extreme
I was just wondering if anyone had any pieces of advice or opinons on the situation
thanks!
-Leah
I've had an eating disorder since i was 12 im now 28
reasons why:
Im latina
i grew up not having much I should apprciate what I can get (food)
I listen to rap
I live a fast lifestyle
When i heard this I was crushed
This is a stero typical extreme
I was just wondering if anyone had any pieces of advice or opinons on the situation
thanks!
-Leah
I've had an eating disorder since i was 12 im now 28
A. The general demographic for anorexics and bulimics is white, upper middle class adolescent/young adult female perfectionists, often with a history of sexual abuse. They constitute the majority of cases; it's not really a stereotype. This however, does not mean that individuals who don't fit this profile cannot also have eating disorders or issues with food.
There is an article called "A Way Outa No Way: Eating Problems Among African American, Latina, and White Women" by Becky Wangsgaard Thompson. The women in this article have mostly Binge Eating Disorder, and explain that being addicted to food is cheaper and less destructive than other addictions (alcohol, drugs, etc.) They also talk about the control they feel they have over themselves when they binge.
There are a number of articles that examine the growing trend for minorities within a predominantly white culture (or a society where white standards are the norm) to exhibit eating disorders; there are some articles about the United States, and others about Indians and Pakistanis in England. Eating disorders have generally been a Western phenomenon, but there are recent articles that discuss the spread of eating disorders into Asia (India, China, Japan, Korea, and other countries that are continuing to be more and more industrialized, wealthier, and/or Westernized).
It should also be noted that there are Latina movie stars who have admitted to having eating disorders; for example, Jessica Alba has discussed her past issues in different magazines.
Eating disorders are all about extremes; some women may be all but celibate, others are hypersexual. Some may never touch drugs, others may experiment or use frequently. I've known women who have used meth and cocaine not for any kind of high, but for the tons of energy and loss of appetite. Less extreme women opt for "legal" drugs, like cigarettes (which decrease appetite), laxatives, Adderall or Ritalin (energy and loss of appetite), etc. I'm not sure what you mean by living a "fast lifestyle", but I can assure you, it in no way negates an eating disorder you may have.
There are a number of websites you can look at to see if you fit the symptomology for a variety of eating disorders. In addition to anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa, you should look at orthorexia nervosa, binge eating disorder, and ED NOS (eating disorder not otherwise specified). If you think you have an eating disorder, you MUST get help, regardless of the preconceptions your family and friends have.
There is an article called "A Way Outa No Way: Eating Problems Among African American, Latina, and White Women" by Becky Wangsgaard Thompson. The women in this article have mostly Binge Eating Disorder, and explain that being addicted to food is cheaper and less destructive than other addictions (alcohol, drugs, etc.) They also talk about the control they feel they have over themselves when they binge.
There are a number of articles that examine the growing trend for minorities within a predominantly white culture (or a society where white standards are the norm) to exhibit eating disorders; there are some articles about the United States, and others about Indians and Pakistanis in England. Eating disorders have generally been a Western phenomenon, but there are recent articles that discuss the spread of eating disorders into Asia (India, China, Japan, Korea, and other countries that are continuing to be more and more industrialized, wealthier, and/or Westernized).
It should also be noted that there are Latina movie stars who have admitted to having eating disorders; for example, Jessica Alba has discussed her past issues in different magazines.
Eating disorders are all about extremes; some women may be all but celibate, others are hypersexual. Some may never touch drugs, others may experiment or use frequently. I've known women who have used meth and cocaine not for any kind of high, but for the tons of energy and loss of appetite. Less extreme women opt for "legal" drugs, like cigarettes (which decrease appetite), laxatives, Adderall or Ritalin (energy and loss of appetite), etc. I'm not sure what you mean by living a "fast lifestyle", but I can assure you, it in no way negates an eating disorder you may have.
There are a number of websites you can look at to see if you fit the symptomology for a variety of eating disorders. In addition to anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa, you should look at orthorexia nervosa, binge eating disorder, and ED NOS (eating disorder not otherwise specified). If you think you have an eating disorder, you MUST get help, regardless of the preconceptions your family and friends have.
why is my hippopotamus red?
Q. and my camel perrywinkel
A. http://pubs.acs.org/cen/news/8222/8222notw9.html
Researchers have identified the chemicals responsible for the timeless myth that hippopotamus sweat blood. The blood red secretion is a familiar sight to anyone who has come face to face with a hippo.
"It's all over their back, face and behind their ears. It really does look like blood is pouring down them, "Craig White, a zookeeper at Whipsnade Wild Animal Park in Britain was quoted by Nature as saying.
Kimiko Hashimoto and his colleagues at Kyoto Pharmaceutical University, Japan, revealed that hippos' secretions are neither blood nor sweat, but a mixture of pigments that function both as sunscreen and antibiotic. This mixture keeps hippos' cool and protects them from the harmful effects of the sun, reports webindia123.com
According to independent.co.uk a team at the Kyoto Pharmaceutical University in Japan tested the "red sweat" collected from a specimen at the Ueno Zoological Gardens in Tokyo by "wiping [its] face and back with gauze".
To their surprise, the team led by Yoko Saikawa discovered that although the sweat is alkaline when it is secreted, as it turns brown it becomes a strongly acidic substance - hundreds of times more powerful than vinegar - that works as a strong antiseptic. That could be useful, scientists suggest, to neutralise infection in any open wounds that three-ton fighting males might inflict on each other with their tusks.
But the thick layer also acts as a sunscreen and further studies discovered that it absorbs light, particularly in the ultraviolet range, just like commercial sunscreens. Being such a thick, sticky substance, it tends to stick to the skin for the day-long baths that hippos prefer, when they will linger with only their eyes, ears and nose above the waterline.
The hippopotamus - or "river horse" - is a belligerent creature, which puzzled the ancient Greeks by apparently sweating blood. In fact, the thick red substance, which oozes from glands all over its skin, is one of the hippo's many ingenious survival tools. The enormous relative of the pig has carved out a unique amphibious life for itself - which requires some specialised equipment.
Hippos consume as much vegetation as they can during the night, when they are shielded from the searing heat and sun. At dawn, they retire into water and spend their days resting, squabbling and, most importantly, digesting.
Wayne Boardman, head of veterinary services at the Zoological Society of London, UK, told: "They are adapted to eating poor quality food stuffs, but to be able to get nutrition out of these, they need to be able to eat for long periods of time."
Because it is so important for hippos to eat a vast amount, they must venture out in the sun from time to time, to top up on their nightly binge. But a traditional sunscreen - like fur - is not practical if you spend half your time submerged in water, inform BBC.
http://newsfromrussia.com/science/2004/0...
Researchers have identified the chemicals responsible for the timeless myth that hippopotamus sweat blood. The blood red secretion is a familiar sight to anyone who has come face to face with a hippo.
"It's all over their back, face and behind their ears. It really does look like blood is pouring down them, "Craig White, a zookeeper at Whipsnade Wild Animal Park in Britain was quoted by Nature as saying.
Kimiko Hashimoto and his colleagues at Kyoto Pharmaceutical University, Japan, revealed that hippos' secretions are neither blood nor sweat, but a mixture of pigments that function both as sunscreen and antibiotic. This mixture keeps hippos' cool and protects them from the harmful effects of the sun, reports webindia123.com
According to independent.co.uk a team at the Kyoto Pharmaceutical University in Japan tested the "red sweat" collected from a specimen at the Ueno Zoological Gardens in Tokyo by "wiping [its] face and back with gauze".
To their surprise, the team led by Yoko Saikawa discovered that although the sweat is alkaline when it is secreted, as it turns brown it becomes a strongly acidic substance - hundreds of times more powerful than vinegar - that works as a strong antiseptic. That could be useful, scientists suggest, to neutralise infection in any open wounds that three-ton fighting males might inflict on each other with their tusks.
But the thick layer also acts as a sunscreen and further studies discovered that it absorbs light, particularly in the ultraviolet range, just like commercial sunscreens. Being such a thick, sticky substance, it tends to stick to the skin for the day-long baths that hippos prefer, when they will linger with only their eyes, ears and nose above the waterline.
The hippopotamus - or "river horse" - is a belligerent creature, which puzzled the ancient Greeks by apparently sweating blood. In fact, the thick red substance, which oozes from glands all over its skin, is one of the hippo's many ingenious survival tools. The enormous relative of the pig has carved out a unique amphibious life for itself - which requires some specialised equipment.
Hippos consume as much vegetation as they can during the night, when they are shielded from the searing heat and sun. At dawn, they retire into water and spend their days resting, squabbling and, most importantly, digesting.
Wayne Boardman, head of veterinary services at the Zoological Society of London, UK, told: "They are adapted to eating poor quality food stuffs, but to be able to get nutrition out of these, they need to be able to eat for long periods of time."
Because it is so important for hippos to eat a vast amount, they must venture out in the sun from time to time, to top up on their nightly binge. But a traditional sunscreen - like fur - is not practical if you spend half your time submerged in water, inform BBC.
http://newsfromrussia.com/science/2004/0...
is there a medical condition in which the brain doesnt register that your belly is full?
Q. my 5yr old daughter is always hungry and i am starting to get worred about it. She is starting to be over weight. She is always hungry and if u let her, she will eat until she pukes. I dont know what to do because although i know she is not starving i dont want to limit her food and make her feel hungry.. no one likes hunger pains.
ok al d. she does eat fruits and vegetables a lot. im talkin about a serious problem, its not about me enabling her or about whose fault it would be if she gets fat! i dont sit around and let her eat what she wants when she wants. Im askin for real answers please dont leave an answer if ur gonna criticize me or be nasty about it
ok al d. she does eat fruits and vegetables a lot. im talkin about a serious problem, its not about me enabling her or about whose fault it would be if she gets fat! i dont sit around and let her eat what she wants when she wants. Im askin for real answers please dont leave an answer if ur gonna criticize me or be nasty about it
A. Bulimia nervosa is an eating disorder characterized by recurrent binge eating, followed by compensatory behaviors.The most common form is defensive vomiting, sometimes called purging; fasting, the use of laxatives, enemas, diuretics, and over exercising are also common.The word bulimia derives from the Latin (bÅ«lÄ«mia), which originally comes from the Greek βοÏλιμία (boulÄ«mia; ravenous hunger), a compound of βοÏÏ (bous), ox + λιμÏÏ (lÄ«mos), hunger.
Bulimia nervosa was named and first described by the British psychiatrist Gerald Russell in 1979.
Diagnosis
According to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV TR) published by the American Psychiatric Association, the criteria for diagnosing a patient with bulimia are:
Recurrent episodes of binge eating. An episode of binge eating is characterized by both of the following:
Eating, in a fixed period of time, an amount of food that is definitely larger than most people would eat under similar circumstances. Mainly eating binge foods.
A lack of control over eating during the episode: a feeling that one cannot stop eating or control what or how much one is eating.
Recurrent inappropriate compensatory behavior to prevent weight gain, such as: self-induced vomiting; misuse of laxatives, diuretics, or other medications; fasting; excessive exercise.
Triggers include periods of stress, traumatic events, and self-evaluation of body shape and weight.
These symptoms may occur after every meal on a daily basis or once every few months.
The disturbance does not occur exclusively during episodes of anorexia nervosa.
There are two sub-types of bulimia nervosa:
Purging type bulimics self-induce vomiting (usually by triggering the gag reflex or ingesting emetics such as syrup of ipecac) to rapidly remove food from the body before it can be digested, or use laxatives, diuretics, or enemas.
Non-purging type bulimics (approximately 6%-8% of cases) exercise or fast excessively after a binge to offset the caloric intake after eating. Purging-type bulimics may also exercise or fast, but as a secondary form of weight control.
The onset of bulimia nervosa is often during adolescence (between 13 and 20 years of age) and many cases have previously suffered obesity, with many sufferers relapsing in adulthood into episodic binging and purging even after initially successful treatment and remission.
Bulimia nervosa can be difficult to detect, compared to anorexia nervosa, because bulimics tend to be of average or slightly above or below average weight. Many bulimics may also engage in significantly disordered eating and exercising patterns without meeting the full diagnostic criteria for bulimia nervosa.
Prevalence
There is little data on the prevalence of bulimia nervosa in-the-large, on general populations. Most studies conducted thus far have been on convenience samples from hospital patients, high school or university students. These have yielded a wide range of results: between 0.1% and 1.4% of males, and between 0.3% and 9.4% of females. Studies on time trends in the prevalence of bulimia nervosa have also yielded inconsistent results
Country Year Sample size and type Incidence
Australia 2008 1,943 adolescents (ages 15â17) 1.4% male 9.4% female
Portugal 2006 2,028 high school students 0.3% female
Brazil 2004 1,807 students (ages 7â19) 0.8% male 1.3% female
Spain 2004 2,509 female adolescents (ages 13â22) 1.4% female
Hungary 2003 580 Budapest residents 0.4% male 3.6% female
Australia 1998 4,200 high school students 0.3% combined
USA 1996 1,152 college students 0.2% male 1.3% female
Norway 1995 19,067 psychiatric patients 0.7% male 7.3% female
Canada 1995 8,116 (random sample) 0.1% male 1.1% female
Japan 1995 2,597 high school students 0.7% male 1.9% female
USA 1992 799 college students 0.4% male 5.1% female
There are higher rates of eating disorders in groups involved in activities which idealize a slim physique, such as dance, gymnastics, modeling, cheerleading, running, acting, rowing and figure skating. Bulimia is more prevalent among Caucasians.
Effects
These cycles often involve rapid and out-of-control eating, which may stop when the bulimic is interrupted by another person or the stomach hurts from overextension, followed by self-induced vomiting or other forms of purging. This cycle may be repeated several times a week or, in more serious cases, several times a day[, and may directly cause:
Chronic gastric reflux after eating
Dehydration and hypokalemia caused by frequent vomiting
Electrolyte imbalance, which can lead to cardiac arrhythmia, cardiac arrest, and even death
Esophagitis, or inflammation of the esophagus
Oral trauma, in which repetitive insertion of fingers or other objects causes lacerations to the lining of the mouth or throat
Gastroparesis or delayed emptying
Constipation
Enlarged glands in the neck, under the jaw line
Peptic ulcers
Calluses or scars on back of han
Bulimia nervosa was named and first described by the British psychiatrist Gerald Russell in 1979.
Diagnosis
According to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV TR) published by the American Psychiatric Association, the criteria for diagnosing a patient with bulimia are:
Recurrent episodes of binge eating. An episode of binge eating is characterized by both of the following:
Eating, in a fixed period of time, an amount of food that is definitely larger than most people would eat under similar circumstances. Mainly eating binge foods.
A lack of control over eating during the episode: a feeling that one cannot stop eating or control what or how much one is eating.
Recurrent inappropriate compensatory behavior to prevent weight gain, such as: self-induced vomiting; misuse of laxatives, diuretics, or other medications; fasting; excessive exercise.
Triggers include periods of stress, traumatic events, and self-evaluation of body shape and weight.
These symptoms may occur after every meal on a daily basis or once every few months.
The disturbance does not occur exclusively during episodes of anorexia nervosa.
There are two sub-types of bulimia nervosa:
Purging type bulimics self-induce vomiting (usually by triggering the gag reflex or ingesting emetics such as syrup of ipecac) to rapidly remove food from the body before it can be digested, or use laxatives, diuretics, or enemas.
Non-purging type bulimics (approximately 6%-8% of cases) exercise or fast excessively after a binge to offset the caloric intake after eating. Purging-type bulimics may also exercise or fast, but as a secondary form of weight control.
The onset of bulimia nervosa is often during adolescence (between 13 and 20 years of age) and many cases have previously suffered obesity, with many sufferers relapsing in adulthood into episodic binging and purging even after initially successful treatment and remission.
Bulimia nervosa can be difficult to detect, compared to anorexia nervosa, because bulimics tend to be of average or slightly above or below average weight. Many bulimics may also engage in significantly disordered eating and exercising patterns without meeting the full diagnostic criteria for bulimia nervosa.
Prevalence
There is little data on the prevalence of bulimia nervosa in-the-large, on general populations. Most studies conducted thus far have been on convenience samples from hospital patients, high school or university students. These have yielded a wide range of results: between 0.1% and 1.4% of males, and between 0.3% and 9.4% of females. Studies on time trends in the prevalence of bulimia nervosa have also yielded inconsistent results
Country Year Sample size and type Incidence
Australia 2008 1,943 adolescents (ages 15â17) 1.4% male 9.4% female
Portugal 2006 2,028 high school students 0.3% female
Brazil 2004 1,807 students (ages 7â19) 0.8% male 1.3% female
Spain 2004 2,509 female adolescents (ages 13â22) 1.4% female
Hungary 2003 580 Budapest residents 0.4% male 3.6% female
Australia 1998 4,200 high school students 0.3% combined
USA 1996 1,152 college students 0.2% male 1.3% female
Norway 1995 19,067 psychiatric patients 0.7% male 7.3% female
Canada 1995 8,116 (random sample) 0.1% male 1.1% female
Japan 1995 2,597 high school students 0.7% male 1.9% female
USA 1992 799 college students 0.4% male 5.1% female
There are higher rates of eating disorders in groups involved in activities which idealize a slim physique, such as dance, gymnastics, modeling, cheerleading, running, acting, rowing and figure skating. Bulimia is more prevalent among Caucasians.
Effects
These cycles often involve rapid and out-of-control eating, which may stop when the bulimic is interrupted by another person or the stomach hurts from overextension, followed by self-induced vomiting or other forms of purging. This cycle may be repeated several times a week or, in more serious cases, several times a day[, and may directly cause:
Chronic gastric reflux after eating
Dehydration and hypokalemia caused by frequent vomiting
Electrolyte imbalance, which can lead to cardiac arrhythmia, cardiac arrest, and even death
Esophagitis, or inflammation of the esophagus
Oral trauma, in which repetitive insertion of fingers or other objects causes lacerations to the lining of the mouth or throat
Gastroparesis or delayed emptying
Constipation
Enlarged glands in the neck, under the jaw line
Peptic ulcers
Calluses or scars on back of han
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