Anorexia and bulimia - the most common eating disorders
Eating disorders are a common problem of the modern society. Mostly women are affected by eating disorders but a number of men are also suffering from them.
Having an eating disorder is much more than being on a strict diet, carefully counting the calories and exercising daily to lose weight. An eating disorder is an illness that seriously affects the patient's life and the lives of his family members.
Those with eating disorders are trying to control their emotions and their lives through eating or through not eating, depending on each person with an eating disorder.
The two main eating disorders are anorexia and bulimia. Both illnesses make their victims obsessed with the fact that they must do everything in their powers to not become fat. They feel that as long as they are thin they are in control of their actions and lives.
Those with bulimia eat a large amount of food in a short time and then they make themselves throw up or they take a large amount of laxatives so they eliminate all the food they've eaten as fast as possible.
Bulimia patients do a lot of physical exercises and they eat very little, until they can't stand the hunger and they eat as much as they can. When they realize the they have eaten a lot of food they immediately take action to eliminate it.
The causes of bulimia are psychological, and they are related to stress, culture or the family.
The symptoms of bulimia are:
-the patient takes extreme measures to lose a lot of weight, exercises all the time even if he/she is injured or very tired
-throws up or takes pills to urinate often or laxatives
If bulimia is not discovered and treated by a specialized doctor it can gravely endanger the health condition of the patient. It can cause depression, anxiety, cavities, fatigue, weakness, ulcer, low blood pressure and many more.
Those with anorexia are obsessed with losing weight and they have a distorted image of their own bodies too. Even if they are as thin as a stick they will still think that they are fat.
They talk about diets and exercising all the time and they do not eat at all. If you offer them food they will refuse. They can even die of starvation eventually if they continue to refuse to eat for a long time.
As in bulimia's case, anorexics talk all the time about losing weight and they always exercise and keep a strict diet.
Anorexia can also lead to serious health issues like low blood pressure, weakened bones and defense system, kidney stones, depression, loss of period in women and loss of potency in men, and many more.
Those with anorexia or bulimia must be helped as soon as possible before they seriously harm themselves. They will deny that they have a problem , so talking with them won't help. They must be helped by specialized doctors.


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All about anorexia nervosa - signs, symptoms and treatment
Anorexia nervosa is an illness that affects mostly teenage girls, but cases of anorexia have been encountered at elder women and men also. In short words, those with anorexia intentionally starve themselves in order to lose weight, and the main problem is that they continue to starve themselves even after losing a lot of weight, which greatly endangers their health and can lead them to die of starvation eventually, if they are not stopped.
It usually begins in the puberty, and its main cause is nervous-based. Modern society's beauty standards consider slim to be beautiful and many people think fat is ugly and disgusting, so girls try to do anything they can to be as slim as possible, and they take this obsession too far. Although the hunger causes them pain and suffering , those with anorexia pretend that they are not hungry and they do everything they can to get more and more thin. Their image of their own body becomes distorted and they see themselves as fat all the time.
Anorexia can threaten the life if starvation continues for a longer period. It can seriously affect the heart and heart rate and lead to heart failure, or it can cause osteoporosis to appear because the bones can be weakened if they are not supplied with the minerals that they need. In the women's case anorexia leads to amenorrhoea, and in men's case to the loss of potency.
Furthermore, in some cases it can also affect the temporal lobe of the brain, which starts to malfunction if the body does not gain enough minerals.
In order to help those with anorexia you must first discover that they suffer from it. Since their own image over their bodies is distorted they are not aware that they have an illness that needs to be treated, and they will refuse to belive it if you tell them. Those with anorexia nervosa can be spotted by the following symptoms:
-they are obsessed with losing weight, they talk about diets and losing weight all the time
-they refuse to eat a meal when you offer them one, by making up fake reasons such as they are not hungry or they just ate
-even though they are very slim they continue to do a lot of physical exercise and try to lose more weight
-some of them can go further, and each time they eat they force themselves to vomit right after, or they overuse laxatives to empty their stomach
The treatment for those with anorexia consists in making them gain weight and eat so they can re-establish the body's balance. Most of them refuse to admit they have a problem so they must be forced to do it. Besides this, psychiatric treatment is needed, in order to make the patients realize that they have a problem and that in fact it's all in their head that they are not thin enough.
There are many non-profit organizations designed to help those with anorexia overcome their problem, so seeking help from one of them is recommended.


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Personal Injury Rights
A personal injury occurs if you have suffered some form of injury, either physical or psychological, as the result of an accident, you have the right to compensation. The process of collecting that compensation, however, relies on a series of other rights.
What you should do first:
If you have been hurt, you will first need to deal with the pain, shock and distress you may be feeling. After that, you may want to think about claiming compensation and getting practical, personal or financial support to deal with the injury and its after-effects. Even if you have not yet decided whether to claim compensation, you should collect evidence about the accident. For example, if you were injured after tripping on a damaged paving stone, you could take photos of the paving stone. Write down details of the accident as soon as you can, while they are still fresh in your mind. If anyone saw what happened to you, get their name and address.
If you visit a doctor for treatment, ask them to record the fact that you had an accident. Their records will be evidence that your injuries were caused by the accident, which will be helpful if you later decide to make a claim. For injuries that you can see, photographs of the injury will also be helpful. Make sure you have a note of the date the photos were taken.
If your accident happened at work:
You should tell your employer about the accident straight away. By law, your employer must keep a record of most types of accident. If you are self-employed, you must record the accident yourself. You or your employer should also report the accident to the Health and Safety Executive or the local authority environmental health department, if this is necessary.
If you think your employer may not properly record the accident, write to them giving brief details of the accident, and keep a copy.
You may be able to receive certain types of benefit after an accident at work. To claim them, you must fill in a form from your local Jobcentre Plus.
If your accident was a on the roads:
If you are hurt in a road accident, you must tell the police and, if your car was involved your insurance company. The insurance company may refuse to pay out if you do not report the accident.
If your accident was during medical treatment:
If you were injured when being treated, for example, by a doctor or in hospital, different rules apply.
Your Personal Injury Lawyer:
First and foremost, you have the right to hire the personal injury lawyer of your choosing. This includes the right NOT to deal directly with the other party insurance company. Many of your other rights are best protected by exercising this right wisely, since your attorney will be the primary champion of your rights.
Your Relationship with Your Personal Injury Lawyer:
You will have to work with and make decisions with your attorney as your case progresses. For instance, you will have to provide information to help your attorney prove liability in your case. You will have to make decisions about alternatives to litigation like mediation and binding arbitration.
In fact, your case may have a positive impact on society. Often litigation forces a manufacturer to remove a dangerous product from the market, or to make changes to increase the safety of the product. Landowners are encouraged to put up fencing or clean up hazardous areas when faced with litigation and news of that litigation impacts other manufacturers and landowners as well. Our legal system was designed to allow individuals like you to recover for your losses, and to hold companies even insurance companies accountable.
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