Eating Disorders and Overtraining
Megan Smith
What is going on?
Anorexia, Bulimia, and Overtraining are three conditions that cause people to be very underweight. But what are they really? What is happening to the person?
Anorexia: n. a serious physical and emotional illness in which an abnormal fear of being fat leads to very poor eating habits and dangerous weight loss.
Bulimia: n. a serious physical and emotional illness in which people and especially young women eat large amounts of food and then cause themselves to vomit in order to not gain weight.
Overtraining: n. training exceeding the body's recovery capacity, indicated by excessive fatigue both physical and mental, and resulting in impaired performance.
Did You Know?
Anorexia:
- more than 200,000 victims per year in the US
- causes irregular menstruation
- slows growth
- causes depression and fear
- more than 3 million cases per year in the US
- causes self- harm, depression, and fear
- results in bad breath and bad oral hygiene
- can cause stomach ulcers
- causes protein deficiency
- the victim is constantly more stressed
- the victim may be prone to ore injuries
- causes depression
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