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Eating disorders

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Eating disorders are mental illnesses that manifest themselves in our relationship with food and with our body. Food becomes a kind of obsession, a source of anxiety and discomfort. Eating disorders usually begin during adolescence (and sometimes even childhood). Even if teenagers and women are the most affected, everyone can suffer from it. There are different eating disorders.

Anorexia

Anorexia is characterized by strategies to lose and control your weight (dietary restrictions and selection, vomiting, taking laxatives or appetite suppressants, fasting, intensive physical exercise, etc.), which result in weight loss and a weight deficit. Despite your extreme weight loss, you might have a distorted image of your body: you see yourself as "fat" and "round". You may tend to avoid shared meals (cafeteria, restaurant, etc.) in order to avoid comments from your friends and family.

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