Anorexia Nervosa Is An Eating Disorder - 1373 Words

Anorexia Nervosa is an eating disorder that a lot of girls and even boys suffer from. It deals with distorted body image issues that turn into an obsessive control of food intake. It can start as a normal diet that gets taken too far. One might limit themselves to a very low calorie diet and over exercising keeping him or her below a healthy weight. The body goes into starvation mode if you do not eat around two thousand calories a day and a person with anorexia on average eats less than six hundred calories per day (Overview - Anorexia nervosa - Mayo Clinic, 2016). To put that into perspective, a banana is about one hundred calories. When your body is starving, it stars hoarding calories and your metabolism does not have to work as†¦show more content†¦There are a few ways to try and treat this disorder. Because it is a mental disorder the first approach a lot of parents take with their child is to get them into some sort of counseling. A counselor can talk to the child or adult suffering from this disease and see if they can try to talk to them and get through to them. They might be able to figure it is deeply rooted from something in their past. They have to try to talk the sick person into trying to want to eat a healthy amount of food and love his or her body again. There are some drugs that can be prescribed to try and help with this which include â€Å"Olanzapine (Zyprexa), Citalopram (Celexa), Fluoxetine (Prozac)† (Overview - Anorexia nervosa - Mayo Clinic, 2016). If a person is refusing help and is getting to a dangerously low weight, they can be hospitalized and force fed from a feeding tube. I did watch a show from the UK that had a program for girls with eating disorders. They were sent away from their parents to live in a home with other girls with eating disorders and were monitored very closely. They were required to eat a certain amount of calories per day and watched extremely closely. They were not allowed to use the restroom u ntil three hours after finishing a meal in fear that they might be hiding food in their mouths and spit it out or some girls would make themselves throw up what they had just eaten. Exercise was limited and any type