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Food addiction may be linked to depression in adolescence

Food addiction may be linked to depression in adolescence

A study published in the Journal of Adolescent Health revealed that adolescent girls with depression are at increased risk of suffering from eating disorders. In addition, girls who have some eating disorder are also more likely to have depression than those who maintain healthy eating habits.

The analysis, led by a Harvard Medical School

United States, counted on the participation of almost five thousand young women between 12 and 18 years old. All of them answered a questionnaire about their mental state and eating habits in three periods: 1999> , 2001 and 2003. The results pointed out that adolescent girls who frequently felt depressed were approximately twice as likely to start have eating disorders in the next two years. The reverse was also possible. Girls who suffered from some eating disorder were twice as likely to have depression. According to the researchers, eating disorders should be prevented based on the symptoms of depression presented by the teenager and also through advice on how to face negative emotions. According to Gisela Cardoso Ziliotto, assistant coordinator of the Nursing course at Nove de Julho University, one of the major concerns of psychiatry today is related to the influence of culture, habits of life and social values ​​as factors that may contribute to the development of eating disorders. This is because, nowadays, we live in a society in which we value the perfect body, the thinness, the turned and fat-free curves. We live in a time when many girls attribute their happiness to a body without defects, sculpted, capable of enslaving. For these girls, the ideal concept of happiness is in the body itself.

The great consequence of this cult of the cult of the body in emotional health is seen in the occurrence of some eating disorders, the most common being anorexia and bulimia. Epidemiologically speaking, these disorders reach 1% of the female population between 18 and 40 years of age, and as a vulnerable group for the development of these disorders are adolescent girls and young adults who aspire to work in activities that favor and emphasize the state of thinness, chubby people who become obsessive about frequent dietary practices and people with low self-esteem, insecurity, and perfectionism.

Eating disorders are widely discussed today, whether in the scientific community or with the general public, who are familiar with this topic . Anorexia has already been covered in novels and newscasts, portraying self-imposed dietary limitations, abnormal eating patterns, marked and self-sustained weight loss. In addition, the sick person has a disturbance in the perception of their body scheme. In other words, it is as if she were facing the mirror and seeing her body as a fat body. Thus, when perceiving your body in this way, the anorexic maintains a progressive fast that may be accompanied by excessive increase of physical exercise practices. In addition to this picture, social withdrawal and irritability are added.

In bulimia, which has also been commented on television numerous times, it is characteristic to eat too much food in a short period of time, followed by feelings of guilt and shame, which lead to voluntary vomiting for weight control. In bulimic, the face remains round and swollen, the skin dry and with cuts in the joints of the hands due to the repeated traumas against the teeth to vomit, these teeth are shaped like half moon by the erosive action of the vomit and the humor is extremely unstable. We can find frequent use of diuretics, laxatives and appetite moderators. Anyway, the main topic of all the conversation of those who have an eating disorder is to lose weight.

It is worth mentioning that, concurrently with all types of treatments available, it is also recommended that the family seeks to understand that it is not a problem as simple and that the lack of clear rules in the family environment or even the excess of rules, as well as excessive preoccupation with physical appearance, with the body or with regimens may contribute to the development of eating disorders. Maintaining family calmness and persistence are key to understanding anorexia and bulimia.


Difficulties in childhood can lead to alcoholism in adolescence

Difficulties in childhood can lead to alcoholism in adolescence

A study done in Africa by researchers from the African Population and Health Research Center found a link between difficulties faced in childhood and problems with alcoholism in adolescence. More than 9,000 adolescents between the ages of 12 and 19 living in Ghana, Burkina Faso, Uganda, and Malawu were interviewed in the survey published in the journal "Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health" .

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Childhood obesity affects one in three Brazilian children

Childhood obesity affects one in three Brazilian children

The IBGE published on August 27 the result of the POF (Family Budgets Survey), with the evolution of data on weight and height of children and adults in Brazil in 2008 and 2009, comparing this research with the statistics of 1974 (when I started my medical school course) and 1989. The result? Obviously predictable.

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