Teenage Eating Disorders

Eating disorders have become the latest illness that has swept teenage girls in many developed cities in the world. This phenomenon of wanting to be slimmer and skinner than their proportion can handle is mostly the work of the media portraying the goodness and perks of being skinny and slim. Girls start to have a perception issue where they view themselves as fat despite being the right size. Eating disorders come in various forms where girls try to lose weight in an unhealthy way

The first type of eating disorder is known as Bulimia. This form of eating disorder is where girls have everything they want to eat but vomit it out at a later time. Girls like this form of eating disorder because it enables them to eat whatever they want and still lose weight through puking. This method however has dangers, where they think it's something that can be stopped. The good part is that the girls actually do lose weight. The bad part is that, the girl has been activating her gag reflex towards food and it can come to an extent where she no longer has to induce vomiting, instead, the sight of a sink or toilet bowl can cause the gagging reflex to activate causing vomiting to occur automatically. This then becomes a danger if the girl wants to stop her vomiting habits but her body has adapted to the habit of vomiting minutes after food consumption.

There is a health danger involved in this habit of vomiting after food consumption. When the body starts to pump the food out of the body, stomach acid juice which protects the stomach lining will also come out together with the food that is being purged out from the body. The sour taste that comes with vomit is the acid juice from the stomach. As vomiting is induced over and over, the acid juice that protects the stomach lining starts to reduce in amount, resulting in a lack of protection which can lead to stomach ulcers and other complications.