Projects of eating disorders, C class 2012-13

1. ANOREXIA

2. What is anorexia ?
• Anorexia nervosa is an eating disorder which
is characterized by immoderate food
restriction and fear of gaining weight.
Although they feel hungry, people who suffer
from anorexia nervosa permit themselves
consume only small quantities of food. These
people consume 600-800 calories on average
daily. Women are 10 times more vulnerable to
anorexia than men.

3. Symptoms
• Fast and dramatic weight loss
• Obsession with the amounts of calories and fat in food stuff
• Desire to be on a diet although they are already thin
• They cut their food in small pieces and they refuse to eat in front of
others, they hide it or they throw it away.
• They try to cause puke to themselves in order to shed the unnecessary
calories.
• They don’t stand the cold
• They suffer from depression and isolation.
• Dry skin and dermatitis
• Inflammations
• Syndrome of Brant (insufficiency of zinc)
• Constipation and diarrhea
• Dental decay

4. Causes
• Obstetric complications
• Genetical causes(it is said that anorexia is hereditary)
• Insufficiency of zinc
• Promotion of thinness for the ideal woman by the media
• Profession (models and actors are obliged to be thin)

5. Treatments
• Allowance of zinc supplements
• Allowance of dietary advice
• Dietary treatment; it is based on the medical and
psychological record of the person
• The olanzapine is a medicine which results in
increase in body mass index and reduces the
obsession with nutrition
• Family treatment
• Alternative medicine(yoga)

6. Effects
• Anorexia results in people not taking the
necessary energy so as their organism
functions properly. They suffer from
headaches, they get cold easily, have low
blood pressure, their nails break easily and
their hair fall. Later, damages are caused to
the heart, the liver and the kidney. After all,
anorexia may cause death.

7. We should accept ourselves as they are and gain
self-confidence and self-esteem.

8. Kalliopi Manesi
Sofia Feizidou
Kostas Tzannetos
Theo Kiousis