Will dieting cause anorexia?

Excessive dieting is an important cause of anorexia. Many women hope to lose weight by dieting. They usually eat very little. Some women even use extreme methods. After eating, they will use some methods to induce vomiting and spit out the food in the stomach. These are important causes of anorexia, which are also very harmful to the health of the body and may even put the patient's life in danger.

What is Anorexia:

Anorexia is a psychological disorder caused by fear of getting fat and low mood, which leads to excessive dieting and refusal to eat, resulting in weight loss, malnutrition, and even refusal to maintain a minimum weight. About 95% are female, and they often have similar personality tendencies during adolescence. Anorexia patients are often difficult to treat, so about 10%-20% of them die prematurely. The causes are mostly complications from malnutrition and suicidal behavior caused by mental depression. Anorexia mainly includes childhood anorexia, adolescent anorexia and anorexia nervosa.

Dangers of anorexia:

1. Decreased body function

Anorexia patients do not eat in time, which leads to severe anemia, cachexia, slow heart rate, and susceptibility to infection, thus threatening their lives. When the patient's body weight is below 65% of the standard body weight, the mortality rate is as high as 10-15%.

2. Weight loss

The most obvious harm of anorexia is a significant weight loss, lack of body fat, easy chills and fear of cold; abnormal hormone levels in the body cause fine and sparse hair or excessive body hair.

3. Fainting

Decreased heart function, slow heart rate, decreased blood pressure, and heart rhythm disorders can lead to sudden death; reduced cardiac blood flow and insufficient blood supply to the cerebral vessels can easily cause fainting.

4. Lack of sexual desire

Women often experience reduced or stopped menstruation, and both men and women suffer from lack of sexual desire.

How to treat anorexia:

1. Behavioral therapy

Behavioral therapy is a general term for a type of psychotherapy technique that aims to alleviate or improve the patient's symptoms or bad behaviors. It has the characteristics of being highly targeted, easy to operate, short treatment course, and quick results. For anorexia, token therapy, behavior shaping and other methods can be used to reduce the patient's aversion to food and gradually improve symptoms.

2. Psychotherapy

It includes relieving the patient's psychological pressure, having an objective understanding of the environment and themselves, finding an angle to adapt to society, and the ability to handle and cope with various life events. In addition, you will understand the concept of a healthy body, the significance of a standard weight, and have an objective assessment of your own physical condition. Understand the knowledge of food and nutrition. For patients with strained family relationships, family members can be invited to undergo family psychotherapy if necessary.

Behavioral correction is another type of psychotherapy, which mainly promotes the patient's weight recovery. It can limit the patient's range of activities and amount of activities. As the weight increases, the freedom of movement is gradually rewarded. This method is generally used in hospitals when the patient's weight is extremely low.

3. Zinc supplementation

The trace element zinc is essential to the human body and is involved in the synthesis of multiple enzymes in the human body. Zinc can affect taste and appetite through the zinc-containing proteins in which it participates, thereby promoting appetite. Zinc deficiency in the human body has a more obvious impact, especially on growing children. Its clinical manifestations are: slow growth, loss of appetite, dull or even loss of taste, poor healing of skin wounds, and susceptibility to infection. Therefore, taking Xinxibao brand Zinc-Selenium tablets can effectively supplement zinc and treat anorexia nervosa.

The most important thing to get rid of anorexia is to start from the psychological aspect. What we pursue is a "just right" body shape, not an overly thin body shape. Try to establish a good relationship with food. You can also achieve the goal of losing weight through dietary adjustments. You don't have to starve yourself to lose weight. Only by adjusting your mentality can you enjoy a healthy and slim body shape.