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Eating disorder amongst teens

What are Eating disorders?

Eating disorders among teenagers comprises of anorexia or bulimia nervosa which completely ruptures their normal daily life and damages body functions. Anorexia patients always fear of gaining weight and they regard themselves as fat so they used to take small amount of food which actually leads to obsession problem among them. Moreover teens who are suffering from Bulimia eats large amount of food in short interval of time and after that in order to lose weight they purge and do excessive exercises. They often restrict their food through dieting and fasting.

Most common symptoms of eating disorders

- Self starvation and excessive exercises
- Reading books related to eating disorder
- Hair loss and low blood pressure
- Mood swings and depression
- Pain on the legs and joint
- Headaches and constipation
- Excessive sweating
- Weight gain
- Swollen glands
- Low self esteem and isolation

Different types of treatments for these disorders

Wilderness Camps: These camps arrange wide range of physical activities and workout programs in order to help the obese teens to overcome their disorders. Moreover these camps offer them nutrition counseling, healthy diet plans as well as fitness routines.

Fitness Boot camps: These types of camps offer fitness exercises, outdoor fitness programs, proper supervision by doctors as well as various body weight training programs in order to save the life of many young adults who became the victims of many diseases due to eating disorders.

Boarding schools: These schools arrange nutritional counseling programs and various physical activities for the obese children. Besides this, these schools offer them healthy food and proper medical intervention which are helpful for them to become physically fit.

Day hospital: These programs offer assessment test by professionals in order to determine suitable treatment programs based on individual needs. Family, group and individual therapy have been offered to them. Moreover this program last for three months in order to bring them back to normal life.

Residential treatment centers: These centers offer individualized treatment programs in order to restore the teens to healthy weight. These centers provide them psychotherapy, cognitive, family, behavior and group therapy as well as weight stabilization programs.

Harmful effects of these disorders among teenagers

Eating disorder can cause mental, physical and behavioral problems as well as medical complications such as trauma, kidney failure and dehydration. In some cases these disorders can even leads to death.

Some useful suggestions for Parents of the obese teens

Parents need not to scold their child but they should check their diet plan and help them to choose suitable exercises. Healthy food should be given to them daily and the types of food consume by them should be regularly checked. Moreover parents should restrict them to take junk food and chocolates in large amount.