| Fighting our society's food disorders |
Forgetting about food
Our relation with food is changing, and not necessarily for the better. In our rich world where we are never short of something to eat, we have become lazy about cooking, lazy with the nutritional advice our ancestors passed on, and even bad at eating itself. Skipping breakfast is one thing, but giving up eating is a serious matter. Our dieting culture is one thing that has exacerbated eating disorder uptake in our society.
We all need to help out
The following symptoms of anorexia and bulimia may not provoke change in the sufferer themselves, so it is up to that person's relatives and friends to be aware and help them make changes to regulate their eating disorder, and improve their diet to counter their eating disorder.
Weight loss
Dramatic weight loss in a relatively short period of time and wearing big or baggy clothes or dressing in layers to hide body shape is one sign of an eating disorder. Another clue might be an obsession with weight and complaining of weight problems. When these are unrealistic and the person is of normal size, then alarm bells should sound and action taken to prevent an eating disorder
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