The female body was never meant to be too thin.
The natural beauty of the female body is in having proper amount of muscles and fat to help deliver a healthy baby.
Latest trends in fashion have been pushing females away from their natural body structure.
The need to be thin to be socially labelled as beautiful, has created various medical disorders which never existed before.
One of such new disorders is Anorexia Nervosa.
Its an eating disorder characterized by extreme mental preoccupation, irrational fear of gaining weight as well as of distorted body structure.
The common symptoms -
1. patients purposefully lose or suppress their appetite.
2. patients obsessed with having low body weight,
3. show inappropriate eating habits - eating minimum quantities of food, or eating food just to fill stomach with no nutrition value.
3. the fear of gaining weight - excessive exercising, excessive dieting, smoking or addiction to appetite suppressants
The health problems that such obsession causes -
1. weakness and always feeling fatigued
2. lack of glow on skin and hair fall.
3. Infertility - inability of the female reproductive system to conceive and carry a pregnancy to full term.
Treatment -
1. consult your gynecologist - inform her about your mental obsession and appetite patterns.
2. consulting a counselor to help you battle the irrational fears.
3. having a broader view to beauty.
4. proper medical treatment as when required.
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B.M.I
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