Question

Eating disorders have become very prevalent in American society, as well as in other parts of the world. These disorders can be extremely difficult to successfully treat due to not only physical aspects of eating, but also the psychosocial aspects of eating. Go to the following web sites to explore some of these issues.

http://www.nationaleatingdisorders.org/

http://www.anad.org/

Suppose that someone you know has an eating disorder, specifically anorexia nervosa. What types of options could you present to that person to help them with their disorder? Is there information on these web sites that you believe will be of help to that person?

Answer 1

There are many people who go through an eating disorder like people stop eating completely and try different diets so they can lose weight and don’t become fat. Because of this, they don’t give nutrition to their body and this lead to many problems psychological and physical. In the article I found about ‘diet culture’ , according to the article diet culture is harmful and dangerous people of all sizes as it makes eating disorder and this lead to full recovery almost impossible.

If my friend is going through an eating disorder and then I will take him to support groups, and to a counsellor to make him understand the harmful effects of the disorder. But I will also take him to a dietician so he can make him understand and guide him about the right food choices and break his myth that losing fat is very easy and it can be done by eating also. And I will also design exercises for him so he can work out and lose fat. These are things I will o for him, to remove bad things from his mind. The person who is suffering from the disorder needs proper guidance.

Yes there are ways where they give ideas and examples how to tackle eating disorder