ANOREXIA: A hidden danger!

I decided to talk about this topic not from a personal experience but from the many research and write ups I have read on it. Why now you may ask? My answer would be that it’s a trend that I see creeping slowly but gradually amongst women particularly this generation. Being thin is being celebrated and used as a yard stick for healthy lifestyle regardless of whether it’s true or not.

I see young ladies, and also the not so young ones, embarking on a suicidal mission in the name of staying healthy without a clear cut direction of why they are embarking on the diet or to what purpose other than to be able to post a selfie looking trendy with all the curves in the right places and ability to project the image. This they do without realising that they are practically starving themselves to death.

Ladies please, get in touch with a professional dietician or nutritionist before embarking on any diet of any sort because you might be dancing around being anorexia.

Anorexia is a complex eating disorder with three key features: refusal to maintain a healthy body weight, an intense fear of gaining weight and a distorted body image.

It is very important for you to know that there is a right and wrong way to weight loss and a very thin line between that and the above topic. People with anorexia often deny having a problem, the truth is that anorexia is a serious and potentially deadly eating disorder. Fortunately, recovery is possible. With proper treatment and support, you or someone you care about can break anorexia’s self-destructive pattern and regain health and self-confidence.

Remember that your self-esteem should be based on more than just weight and body image and not entirely on how much you weigh and how thin you are, you should learn to like yourself in any shape, controlling your weight should be because you want to live longer to achieve a lofty purpose, try to love yourself in whatever shape you are, most often than not lack of self confidence and peer pressure also leads one down this part without realising it.

Reading up on how the human system functions and what you need to do to stay alive in terms of food and calorie content should be your yardstick, that is intelligent information and not  someone telling you you are fat, remember health is wealth!