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Article #204: Childhood Eating Disorders

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Our society has become obsessed with Both of these diseases cause severe
being thin and our children are no trauma to the body. Besides the obvious
exception. They're tempted everywhere skeletal appearance, they can cause the
they go with unhealthy food choices and hair and nails to become thin and
an even unhealthier lifestyle. Eating brittle, the skin to become dry,
food that is filled with fat and empty menstruation to stop, fatigue to set in,
calories and days spent sitting in front the organs can be effected, tooth decay
of a computer playing video games. They can occur, and blood pressure can become
hardly stand a chance. We feed them low. If left untreated, both conditions
everything that makes them fat, then tell could eventually lead to death.
them they should be thin. Instead, we There's no known cause for these
should be giving them healthy balanced diseases. Low self-esteem and the desire
foods and daily exercise. In addition, a to be accepted by their peers may be a
natural herbal formula of moringa seed contributing factor. A child with an
extract which provides vitamins, obsessive-compulsive personality could be
minerals, B-complex, protein, and willing to go for days or weeks eating
essential fatty acids should be a daily next to nothing to reach the unrealistic
routine. weight goal they've set for themselves
The two major eating disorders that and still not be satisfied they're thin
affect our children today are anorexia enough. Our society has made it
and bulimia. A child with anorexia will impossible for young girls to be able to
become so obsessed with becoming thin accept themselves. How can they, when
that they'll starve themselves or binge every magazine they open yields images of
and purge and exercise to excess. Even skinny models and actresses for them to
after getting below a weight that is envy.
normal for their height, they still see We need to provide our children with
themselves as too big. Anorexia most healthy choices in both food and
commonly begins affecting teenage girls, lifestyle. Teach them how to exercise on
although boys can also suffer from the a regular basis so it becomes a way of
disease. life. Build there self esteem. Don't
Young people with bulimia, as with constantly refer to their weight, talk
anorexia, are totally pre-occupied with more about their health. Explain to them
their weight. They never see themselves that the models they see in the magazines
as thin enough. People who suffer from and on TV aren't necessarily healthy. Get
bulimia will eat large quantities of food them on a regime of natural vitamins and
and then purge, or vomit, so they don't mineral which will build their immune
consume the calories from the food. system and help restore healthy hair,
Except when they're binging and purging, teeth and bones. The 100% natural blend
bulimics tend to eat very little. They, of herbs such as rose hip seed, hibiscus
too, have a tendency to exercise flower, elderberry, grapeseed, orange
excessively and never see themselves thin peel, lemon peel, and goji berry will
enough. help build red blood cells, too.






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