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10 Facts relating to Eating Disorders that you may not know about……
- Eating Disorders mainly affect young females; about 75% of the patients are between 11-30 years of age.
- Local studies revived that people who has tried to go on diet are 5-8 times more at risk of having an Eating Disorder than those who has not.
- Eating Disorders is a kind of psychological illness but not a choice of life- style.
- Family doctor might not be able to spot out in time that the patient has an eating disorder if he/ she does not have the intention to seek help.
- Research from other countries suggested that the rate of early mortality for AN patients is higher than other psychological disorders.
- There is no medicine that targets specifically on Eating Disorders.
- If Eating Disorders patients receive appropriate treatments, a full recovery is possible.
- AN patients choose not to eat not because they hate food. On the contrary, they are thinking of food all the time.
- AN patients do have a chance of turning into BN.
- Most of the BN patients are at normal body weight, they eat normally as other people which makes it very difficult to find the hidden cases.
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10 Tips that would help you to promote self-confidence
- Stop talking about topics relating to body figure and weight, your life should have a lot of more important things than fat or thin.
- Do not weigh your self-worth on the scale. You are not a piece of meat which sells in the butcher’s stall.
- Do not mind the malicious criticisms from others, you are your own master!
- Be critical with advertisements/messages from the media, do not give up your own life to their sales techniques.
- Do not judge yourself/others’ performance unfavorably because of his/her body size, the prejudicial opinion to oneself or others will only bring harm to all.
- Appreciate yourself/others more from their intrinsic qualities and the positive virtues.
- Be grateful for what you have in front of the mirror every day, you will discover many unexpected harvests
- Love yourself by accepting your own body. You do not live for others.
- “Striving to better, oft we mar what’s well.” King Lear - Shakespeare.From now on, get rid of the perfectionism.
- The last thing is to believe “Healthy is the key, set your body free.”
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